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“It was possibly the most circumspect advance in the history of military maneuvers, right down at the bottom end of the scale that things like the Charge of the Light Brigade are at the top of.”

Light Military History

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Voltaire

Philosopher, Writer

“What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.”

Should Rights History

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Voltaire

Philosopher, Writer

“A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.”

America Europe

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Theodore Roosevelt

Politician, Author

“Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.”

Fighting Sports

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Virginia Woolf

Novelist

“History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.”

Men War History

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Theodore Roosevelt

Politician, Author

“There is a delight in the hardy life of the open.”

Life History

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Rebecca West

Novelist, Journalist

“It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.”

Differences History

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Voltaire

Philosopher, Writer

“History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.”

History Virtue Happy Times

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Theodore Roosevelt

Politician, Author

“It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally.”

Thinking Land History

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Thomas Carlyle

Essayist, Historian, Novelist

“History: A distillation of rumor.”

History Rumor

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Thomas Carlyle

Essayist, Historian, Novelist

“Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.”

Kind History

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Thomas Carlyle

Essayist, Historian, Novelist

“For, strictly considered, what is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?”

History Products

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