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History - the mistakes that we cannot avoid in the future.
History will absolve me. -- Fidel Castro (1926-), Declaration at his trial, July uprising, 1953
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.
-- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv, Stanza 108...
His toupee makes him look twenty years sillier. -- Bill Dana
His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen.
-- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Absalom and Achitophel, Part i, Line 645...
His very foot has music in 't As he comes up the stairs.
-- W. J. Mickle (1734-1788) -- The Mariner's Wife...
His wife hurt herself making dinner yesterday - frostbite.
His wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
-- Old Testament -- Genesis xiv, 26...
His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Conversation, Line 303...

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