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In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the read more
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted
with an eye and a soul.
Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted
with an eye and a soul.
What more would you have? He has invented history.
[Fr., Que voulez-vous de plus? Il a invente l'histoire.]
What more would you have? He has invented history.
[Fr., Que voulez-vous de plus? Il a invente l'histoire.]
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits read more
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a
thousand forests is in one acorn, and read more
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a
thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul,
Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days.
As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days.
All history, of course, is the history of wars.
All history, of course, is the history of wars.
