history
n. 1. gossip well told.
[Elbert Hubbard] 2. a set of lies agreed upon. [Napoleon Bonaparte] 3. that huge Mississippi
of falsehood. (Matthew Arnold) 4. .. what experience and history teach is this – that peoples and
governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
[Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel] 5. just one damned thing after another. [Arnold Toynbee] 6. In
the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job
of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has. [Mark Twain]
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