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George Washington Military Leader, Politician

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"Men are very apt to run into extremes, hatred to England may carry come into an excess of Confidence in France... I am heartily disposed to entertain the most favourable sentiments of our new ally and to cherish them in others to a reasonable degree; but it is a maxim founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it."

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George Will Political Commentator, Author

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"The best use of history is as an inoculation against radical expectations, and hence against embittering disappointments."

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist

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"We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past."

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist

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"History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced"

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Grace King Author

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"The history of one is the history of all."

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Gustave Flaubert Novelist

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"The morality of art is in its very beauty."

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Henry Adams Historian

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"As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson."

Play History Chinese

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Henry Adams Historian

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"No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics."

Race History Statistics

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Henry Adams Historian

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"History is only a value of relation."

History Values Relation

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Henry Adams Historian

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"One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it."

Truth Wind History

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Henry Adams Historian

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"History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated."

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Henry Adams Historian

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"Nothing is easier than to teach historical method, but, when learned, it has little use."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher

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"Some creatures are made to see in the dark."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher

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"History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the beginning ofthings, which natural history might with reason assume to do; but consider the Universal History, and then tell us,--when did burdock and plantain sprout first?"

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher

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"The researcher is more memorable than the researched."

Knowledge History Memorable

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher

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"There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher

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"Such were garrulous and noisy eras, which no longer yield any sound, but the Grecian or silent and melodious era is ever soundingand resounding in the ears of men."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher

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"The sun rarely shines in history, what with the dust and confusion; and when we meet with any cheering fact which implies the presence of this luminary, we excerpt and modernize it."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher

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"In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, "memoirs to serve for a history," which is but materials to serve for a mythology."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher

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"We perceive that the schemers return again and again to common sense and labor. Such is the evidence of history."

History Common Sense Reform

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