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Bacon, Francis on History and Historians
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Beerbohm, Sir Max on History and Historians
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"Historian. A broad -- gauge gossip."
Bierce, Ambrose on History and Historians
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"The main thing is to make history, not to write it."
Bismarck, Otto Von on History and Historians
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"From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us."
Bonaparte, Napoleon on History and Historians
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"People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors."
Burke, Edmund on History and Historians
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"The Thames is liquid history."
Burns, John on History and Historians
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"God cannot alter the past, but historians can."
Butler, Samuel on History and Historians
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"History is the devil's scripture."
Byron, Lord on History and Historians
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"History is the distillation of rumor."
Carlyle, Thomas on History and Historians
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"The whole past is the procession of the present."
Carlyle, Thomas on History and Historians
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"The history of the world is but the biography of great men."
Carlyle, Thomas on History and Historians
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"History is but a confused heap of facts."
Chesterfield, Lord on History and Historians
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Chesterton, Gilbert K. on History and Historians
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"The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves."
Cicero, Marcus T. on History and Historians
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"While we read history we make history."
Curtis, George William on History and Historians
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"History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history."
Darrow, Clarence on History and Historians
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"The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present."
Dimnet, Ernest on History and Historians
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"Our best history is still poetry."
Emerson, Ralph Waldo on History and Historians
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"Might does not make right, it only makes history."
Fiebig, Jim on History and Historians
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Fisher, Herbert Albert Laurens on History and Historians
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"Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times."
Flaubert, Gustave on History and Historians
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"History is more or less bunk."
Ford, Henry on History and Historians
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"History books that contain no lies are extremely dull."
France, Anatole on History and Historians
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"The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies."
Froude, James A. on History and Historians
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"The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders."
Fuller, R. Buckminster on History and Historians
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