For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
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The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.
The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.
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 the ship carrying living memories to the future.
History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.
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The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
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.
History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.
History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.
