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Henry St John | History Quotes
They (Thucydides and Xenophon) maintained the dignity of history.
Harry Turtledove
Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.
John Updike
There is very little thanks in history. Dog eat dog.




Marcus Fabius Quintilian
Historia et scribitur ad narrandum non ad probandum.
Barbara Tuchman
History is the unfolding of miscalculations.
James A. Garfield | History Quotes
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.
Anonymous
History shows that life is the cheapest commodity.
Steve Maraboli
No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create?
Kurt Vonnegut
George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.
Richard Brautigan
All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.
Edward R. Murrow | History Quotes
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.




Stephen Covey
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen Spender
History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.
Terry Eagleton
History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.
Dag Hammarskjold
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
Subhash Kak | History Quotes
History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination.
Oscar Wilde
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
Walter Benjamin
History breaks down in images not into stories.
Henry James
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
George Saintsbury
Historians may lie, but History cannot.


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