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Quote by William Hazlitt
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. – William Hazlitt

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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began. – William Hazlitt

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History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it. – Theodor Adorno

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Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way. – Richard Ellman

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Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history. – Carlton J.H. Hayes

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