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.
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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it
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History, a distillation of rumor.
