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"Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently."
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"In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down."
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"Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world."
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"In the parlor was a huge camera on wheels like the ones used in public parks, and the backdrop of a marine twilight, painted with homemade paints, and the walls papered with pictures of children at memorable moments: the first Communion, the bunny costume, the happy birthday. Year after year, during contemplative pauses on afternoons of chess, Dr. Urbino had seen the gradual covering over of the walls, and he had often thought with a shudder of sorrow that in the gallery of casual portraits lay the germ of the future of the city, governed and corrupted by those unknown children, where note even the ashes of his glory would remain."
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"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
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"History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies."
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"Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times."
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"The opportunity of studying history, is the opportunity to experience empathy."
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"Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things produced by a living thing. In that sense it was really bolder and freer than what we call the renaissance, which was a resurrection of old things discovered in a dead thing... and the Gospel according to St. Thomas... was a new thrust like the titanic thrust of Gothic engineering; and its strength was in a God that makes all things new."
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"Every past is worth condemning."
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"Nothing is long ago in an archive, my dear. In the records we treat the dead as same as the living. that's the whole point of keeping papers. It doesn't matter if it's a hundred years or only a few weeks. It's all filed away, fresh as the day it went under the covers."
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"People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception."
People
"Politics makes strange bedfellows."
Politics
"What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it."
Gardening
"How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man."
Love
"The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value."
Gift
"There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman."
Social
"One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one."
Experience
"The thing generally raised on city land is taxes."
Land
"Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently."
History
"Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it."
Conversation
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