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History is curious stuff You'd think by now we had enough Yet the fact remains I fear They make more of it every year.
History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes.
-- Francis M. Voltaire (1694-1778) -- L'Ingenu, Chap. x, (1767.)...
History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Doctor Emilio Lizardo/Lord John Whorfin in "Buckaroo Banzai...
History is only a confused heap of facts.
History is the science of what never happens twice. -- Valery's Law
History is the short trudge from Adam to atom. -- Leonard Louis Levinso
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)...
HISTORY.LIE Virus Detected - Run FEMINIZT.BAT !
HISTORY Look, there's no point dwelling on the past, okay?
What's done is done. It's much better left forgotten....
HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
Of Roman history, great Niebuhr's shown 'Tis ni...

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