"That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain."

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"That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain."

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"In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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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."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombian Novelist

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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."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies."

Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist

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"Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"The opportunity of studying history, is the opportunity to experience empathy."

John Green, American Author

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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."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

History, Growth, Faith, Change

"Every past is worth condemning."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

History, Past, Judgment, Mistake

"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."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"Upon examination of a people's history, beware the story teller's motives."

T. F. Hodge, American Motivational Speaker

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"Personality is lower than partiality."

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"The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke."

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"It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city."

Time, Career, Conquest, Country

"Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God."

God, Cause, Enemies, Eyes

"But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, and his mind will be satisfied, if he has a mind to be satisfied and not only a fancy to run away with him."

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"It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions."

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"The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border."

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"The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation."

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"As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper."

Life, Poetry, Thought, London

"Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?"

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