| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 856 |
| AUTHOR: | Karl Marx (181883) |
| QUOTATION: | Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | KARL MARX, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, part 1, in On Revolution (vol. 1 of The Karl Marx Library), ed. and trans. Saul K. Padover, p. 245 (1971). |
| SUBJECTS: | History |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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