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History is more or less bunk.

The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history, which is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, and misfortunes of mankind.

And read their history in a nation's eyes.

The long historian of my country's woes.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different.

The fate of a nation has often depended on the food or bad digestion of a prime minister.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

History repeats itself; historians repeat each other.

History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play on the dead.

The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Anecdotes are the gleaming toys of history. The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.

History: A distillation of rumor.

History would be wonderful thing - if it were only true.

The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.