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History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
Laurence Sterne
The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
Anonymous
History is written by the victors.




Oscar Wilde
Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Mignon McLaughlin
The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.
It is like writing history with lightning. And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
Benazir Bhutto
It is not a sad day ... it is the darkest, gloomiest day in the history of this country.
Catherine of Aragon
Nature wronged her in making her a woman. But for her sex she could have surpassed all the heros of history.
Roger Federer
Federer is the best player in history, no other player has ever had such quality.
Gustave Flaubert
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Shimon Peres | History Quotes
Historic justice has been done by killing Saddam.




Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language is the archives of history...Language is fossil poetry.
Robert Roy MacGregor
Honor made him a man. Courage made him a hero. History made him a Legend.
Antonio Gramsci
History is at once freedom and necessity.
Gustavo Gutierrez
The future of history belongs to the poor and exploited.
Larry Wall | History Quotes
The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.
Thomas Carlyle
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
Marcus Aurelius
All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.
Michael E. Brown
I may go down in history as the guy who killed Pluto.
Stephen R. Lawhead
You’re changing the course of history. I thought that sort of thing was strictly forbidden.


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