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Quote by Augustine Birrell
That great dust-heap called history. - Augustine Birrell

That great dust-heap called history. – Augustine Birrell

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An ordinary man can… surround himself with two thousand books… and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy. – Augustine Birrell

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Those who dont know history are destined to repeat it. – Edmund Burke

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History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. Its one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldnt live without. – Howard Nemerov

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They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech. – James Stockdale

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History

People tend to forget that the word “history” contains the word “story”. – Ken Burns

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