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• One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
  -- Will Dura...
• One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
  -- Will Durant, in "Reader's Digest", 1972...
• 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....
• Most often the correct thing to say to most people is nothing.
• History repeats itself. That's one thing wrong with history.
• Right Thing n. That which is compellingly the correct or appropriate thing to use, do, say, etc.
  Often capitalized, always emphasized in speech as though capitalized....