What is history? Little more than a register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of men. Edward Gibbon***People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. James Baldwin***God cannot alter the past, but historians can. Samuel Butler.***I often think it odd that history should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention. Jane Austen***The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. Mark Twain***Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. H.G. Wells***What is history but a fable agreed upon? Napoleon***History teaches us that people have never learnt anything from history. Georg Hegel***History repeats itself, and that’s one of the things that’s wrong with history. Clarence Darrow***Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it. George Santayana***History: an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. Ambrose Bierce***History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead. Voltaire***Study the past if you would divine the future. Confucius***The mass of people lead lives of quiet desperation. Henry David Thoreau***History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. Maya Angelou***History is bunk. Henry Ford***There is no truth in history, only varying degrees of plausibility. Voltaire

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