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History is a simple piece of paper covered with print. The main thing is still to make history, not to read more
History is a simple piece of paper covered with print. The main thing is still to make history, not to write it.
Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the read more
Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand read more
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed read more
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
Give the historians something to write about.
Give the historians something to write about.
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons read more
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
