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The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.

History is a vast early warning system.

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

We will hereafter believe less history than ever, now that we have seen how it is made.

The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of thr majority in the middle.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.

Throughout history females have picked providers. males have picked anything.

Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.

History -- its what those bitter old men write.

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.

The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been "great changes.".

Don't brood on what's past, but never forget it either.

Every historian discloses a new horizon.