Samuel Johnson's Quote - This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of miser

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This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of miser

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery. – Samuel Johnson

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Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye. – Samuel Johnson

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There mark what ills the scholars life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron. – Samuel Johnson

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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth. – Samuel Johnson

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Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos. – Thomas A. Bailey

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A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. – Grover Cleveland

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[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust. – Edith Sitwell

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Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction. – W.H. Auden, A Certain World

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