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Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one read more
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it.
How many pens are broken, how many ink bottles consumed, to write about things that have never happened.
How many pens are broken, how many ink bottles consumed, to write about things that have never happened.
The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been read more
The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been "great changes.".
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be read more
It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play on the dead.
History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play on the dead.