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Robert Christy, comp.  Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages.  1887.
 
History
 
Happy the land which has nothing for history.  French wit.  1
History is philosophy teaching by examples.  Dionysius of Halicarnassus.  2
History repeats itself.  3
History, which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.  Gibbon.  4
 
 
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