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[H]istorians have powerful imaginations, which are essential and dangerous.
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[H]istory gives answers only to those who know how to ask questions.
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[H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a sudden stagetrick.
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[H]istory is the sextant of states which, tossed by wind and current, would be lost in confusion if they could not fix their position.
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[History is a] mixture of error and violence.
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[History is] a damn dim candle over a damn dark abyss.
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[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead – and so the imagination of the living.
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[History is] petrified imagination.
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[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
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[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.
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[History] hath triumphed over Time, which besides it, nothing but Eternity hath triumphed over.
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[History] is fallible as every man is fallible. But it is likewise trustworthy, as a man is trustworthy who has looked into himself and come to know how blended are dust and fire in the innermost recesses of the human heart.
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[I]t was that there are no simple lessons in history, that it is human nature that repeats itself, not history.
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[Some historians hold that history] is just one damned thing after another.
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[T]hat is the triumph of history – truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist.
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[T]he historian and the detective have much in common.
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[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.
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[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present.
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[T]he Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
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[W]hat mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
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