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History: A distillation of rumor.
History: A distillation of rumor.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.
Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.
You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.
You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.
Might does not make right, it only makes history.
Might does not make right, it only makes history.
The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.
The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.
Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.
