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History was being manufactured at the rate of a sensation a week.

— Fergus Hume

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Raki is bad enough, but it's nectar compared with pulque.

"Whatever you do, don’t go on to the beaches at dusk," was all he said. Then he vanished.

"I don't like Latin," said Miss Frettlby, shaking her pretty head. "I agree with Heine's remark, that if the Romans had had to learn it they would not have found time to conquer the world."

I was not myself on that night. The wine was in and the wit was out.

"Diplomacy," said Calton, to one young aspirant for legal honours, "is the oil we cast on the troubled waters of social, professional, and political life; and if you can, by a little tact, manage mankind, you are pretty certain to get on in this world."

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

Thomas Jefferson

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