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For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which w

For what is history, but… huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were holding up a monument to the honor, rather than the infamy of our species. – Washington Irving, History of New York

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[History is] petrified imagination. – Arthur Baer

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Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals. – John Dewey, Characters and Events

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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. – John Burroughs

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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up. – Voltaire

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