"I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals."
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"It's so damned humiliating."
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"By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law."
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"Art is science in the flesh."
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"All our knowledge is symbolic."
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"Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]"
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"The history of mankind is his character."
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"Now, as God the maker play'd he taught the game to Nature whom he created in his image; taught her the selfsame game which he played to her."
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"My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."
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"It was involuntary. They sank my boat."
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"The long historian of my country's woes."
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"For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado."
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"The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us."
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"It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us. We can recover self-confidence by snubbing the dead."
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"Every good historian is almost by definition a revisionist. He looks at the accepted view of a particular historic episode or period with a very critical eye."
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"Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things."
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"I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out."
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"I find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if they were the most helpless and impotent of mankind, and yet a violence... and a boistrousness in their resentment, as if they had been puffed up with the highest prosperity and power. they will not only be served, but it must also be in their own way and on their own principles and even in words and language that they liked... which renders it very difficult for a plain unguarded man as I am to have anything to do with them or their affairs."
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"Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed."
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"History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God."
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