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Don't brood on what's past, but never forget it either.
Don't brood on what's past, but never forget it either.
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed read more
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any admirable human qualities. I failed history.
The historian sees backward. In the end he also believes backward.
The historian sees backward. In the end he also believes backward.
I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,.
I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,.
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.
The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the read more
The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the world, the King the word of whose mouth destroys mountains and seas, who by his lordly attack has forced mighty and merciless Kings from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same to acknowledge one supremacy.
The fate of a nation has often depended on the food or bad digestion of a prime minister.
The fate of a nation has often depended on the food or bad digestion of a prime minister.
