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• Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today?
• History books which contain no lies are extremely dull.
• Thank God, I have done my duty. Kiss me, Hardy. -- Adm. Horatio Nelson, 21 Oct 1805
• Article Four: Nelson is never again to raise his fists in anger.
  Article Five: Nelson recognizes Bart's right to exist....
• Many people think that history is a dull subject. Dull?
  Is it "dull" that Jesse James once got bitten on the forehead by an ant, and at first it didn't seem like anything, but then the bite got worse and worse, so he went to a doctor in town, and the secretary told him to wait, so he sat down and waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and then finally he got to see the doctor, and the doctor put some salve on it?...
• The only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn.
  -- Earl Warren That men do not learn very much from history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach....
• He that will have no books but those that are scarce
  evinces about as correct a taste in literature as he would do in friendship, who would have no friends but those whom all the rest of the world have sent to coventry....