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"History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes."
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"There were in the camp a number of Mexican slaves and these ran forth calling out in spanish and were brained or shot and one of the Delawares emerged from the smoke with a naked infant dangling in each hand and squatted at a ring of midden stones and swung them by the heels each in turn and bashed their heads against the stones so that the brains burst forth through the fontanel in a bloody spew and humans on fire came shrieking forth like berserkers and the riders hacked them down with their enormous knives and a young woman ran up and embraced the bloodied forefeet of Glanton's warhorse."
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"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."
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"The king is dead. Long live the queen."
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"Wars are the strongest evidence for the claim that man is still a wild animal."
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"If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman."
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"By studying human history, we can realize how much of human stupidity has fallen on fertile ground. Is gravity guilty for such an occurrence too?"
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"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."
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"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."
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"The course of history is determined not by battles, by sieges, or usurpation, but by the individuals. The strongest army is, at its most basic level, a collection of individuals. Their decisions, their passions, their foolishness, and their dreams shape the years to come. If there is any lesson to be learned from history, it is that all too often the fate of armies, of cities, of entire realms rests upon the actions of one person's decision, good or bad, right or wrong, big or small, can unwittingly change the world.But history can be quite the slattern. One never knows who that person is, where he might be, or what decision he might male.It is almost enough to make me believe in destiny."
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"The grace of God is courtesy."
God
"Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing."
Writing
"Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone."
Soul
"Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography."
Autobiography
"From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."
Friendship
"Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death."
Death
"Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language."
History
"The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie."
Lie
"All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men."
Man
"I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it."
Writing
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