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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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who werent there. – George Santayana

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The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax. – Tom Osborne

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If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated. – Carter G. Woodson

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