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Historians are gossips who tease the dead.
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Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them
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Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.
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Historians are themselves products of history.
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Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way.
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Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.
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Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.
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Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.
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History — its what those bitter old men write.
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History – that little sewer where man loves to wallow.
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History as a discipline can be characterized as having a collective forgetfulness about women.
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History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory.
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History balances the frustration of ‘how far we have to go’ with the satisfaction of ‘how far we have come.’ It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.
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History begins in novel and ends in essay.
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History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression of the stuff by snipping off an inch or two for a pattern.
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History belongs to the winner.
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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
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History casts its shadow far into the land of song.
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History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.- Voltaire
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