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Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

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Every day of your life is a page of your history.- Arabian Proverb

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Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may.

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Every historian discloses a new horizon.

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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

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Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

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Facts are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract truth which interpenetrates them, and lies latent among them, like gold in the ore, that the mass derives its whole value; and the precious particles are generally combined with the baser in such a manner that the separation is a task of the utmost difficulty.

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Failure is impossible.

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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

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Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.

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Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

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For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.

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For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.

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For me there is no greater subject than history. How a man can study it and not be forced to become a philosopher, I cannot tell.

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For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado.

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For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

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For the rubble of history, which is undigested and therefore goes on blindly, does not lie so thickly on the ground as in our own consciousness.

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For what is history, but… huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were holding up a monument to the honor, rather than the infamy of our species.

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France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.

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Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.


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