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The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
History is philosophy learned from examples.
History is philosophy learned from examples.
History is the devil's scripture.
History is the devil's scripture.
The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.
The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.
Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deitits and so forth, as distinguished read more
Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deitits and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
To give an accurate description of what never happened is the proper occupation of the historian.
To give an accurate description of what never happened is the proper occupation of the historian.
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 man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of 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.
