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No man is truly great who is great only in his own lifetime. The t

No man is truly great who is great only in his own lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. – William Hazlitt, Table Talk, 1822

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The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do. – Louis Gottschalk, Understanding History

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