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In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men’s behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction

— A. J. P. Taylor The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939 (1957)

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