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• History is only a confused heap of facts.
• How lov'd, how honour'd once avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom bego
  A heap of dust alone remains of thee: 'T is all thou art, and all the proud shall be!...
• The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors.
  History is written by the survivors. -- Max Lerne...
• Great contest follows, and much learned dust.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iii, The Garden, Line 161...
• It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. -- Henry Jame
• The stamping out of the artist is one of the blind goals of every civilization.
  When a civilization becomes so standardized that the individual can no longer make an imprint on it, then that civilization is dying....
• There is a golden chain lying in a heap on the floor!