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There is properly no history, only biography.
There is properly no history, only biography.
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.
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.
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.]
The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions read more
The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.
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.
How many pens are broken, how many ink bottles consumed, to write about things that have never happened.
How many pens are broken, how many ink bottles consumed, to write about things that have never happened.
It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be read more
It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.
I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
