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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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[T]he historian and the detective have much in common. – Mark M. Krug, History and the Social Sciences

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The past remains integral to us all, individually and collectively. We must concede the ancients their place, as I have argued. But their place is not simply back there in a separate and foreign country; it is assimilated in ourselves, and resurrected into an ever-changing present. – David Lowenthal, The Past Is a Foreign Country

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The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down. – A. Whitney Brown, The Big Picture

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There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. – Theodore Roosevelt

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