"Historian - a broad-gauge gossip."

History, Gossip

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"Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another."

Crime, Property

"The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations."

History, Acquaintance, Nations

"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

Art, Sun

"Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly."

Family, Mother, Feeling

"It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better."

Change, Man, Skepticism

"Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion."

Religion, State

"Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age."

Life, Age, Folly, Remorse

"Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."

Law, Laws, Universe, Unworthy

"Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility."

Business, Profit, Responsibility

"Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her."

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"The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able to compile such works as they did if they had not been careful in collecting and arranging their matter under different heads."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

History, Books, Knowledge, Order, Learning

"The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

History, Repetition, Lesson, Past

"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

History, Printing, Years

"Mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another."

Voltaire, French Writer

History, Corruption, Nature, Violence, Humanity

"Hasn't there always been a moon?""Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky--it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue..."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

History, Moon, Change, Truth

"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."

Victor Hugo, French Author

History, Echo, Future, Past

"Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great."

Victor Hugo, French Author

History, Goodness

"Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It's a crime."Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment.Tengo went on, "Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

History, Memory, Identity, Crime

"Mankind, not womankind, has slaughtered more humans in the name of God and Religion than for any other reason."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

History, Truth, Regret, Power, Wisdom

"The tragedy about history - personally and globally - is that while we may learn it we rarely learn from it."

Rasheed Ogunlaru, British Motivational Speaker

History, Regret, Learning, Mistake