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Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.
The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.
History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly read more
History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
While we read history we make history.
While we read history we make history.
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
