116 Quotes About History-of-mankind

  • Author Barbara W. Tuchman
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    Any person who considers himself, and intends to remain, a member of Western society inherits the Western past from Athens and Jerusalem to Runnymede and Valley Forge, as well as to Watts and Chicago of August 1968. He may ignore it or deny it, but that does not alter the fact. The past sits back and smiles and knows it owns him anyway.

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  • Author Lord Byron
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    There is a moral of all human tales:'Tis but the same rehearsal of the past,First Freedom, and then Glory; when that fails, Wealth, Vice, Corruption, barbarism at last.And History, with all her volumes vast,Hath but one page.

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