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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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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit and true, he will integrate it by a history implicit and false. – Geoffrey Barraclough, History in a Changing World

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I want to write a book which is the history of comedy. – John Cleese

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De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history. – Aldous Huxley

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