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title: "7 Things Repeated Quotes by 6 authors"
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> [It's just that if you're not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly - not so much the good things but the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adamson/it-s-just-that-if-you-re-not-disruptive-everything-seems-to-be/)

[Robert Adamson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adamson/)

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> [“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton/because-children-have-abounding-vitality-because-they-are-in-spirit/)

[G.K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-k-chesterton/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c08/g-k-chesterton-224_children_because-children-have-abounding-vitality_412113.jpg)

> [Im a storyteller; that is what I do. And Im particularly interested in history; and in history of a certain era. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacqueline-winspear/im-a-storyteller-that-is-what-i-do-and-im-particularly-interested-in/)

[Jacqueline Winspear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacqueline-winspear/)

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> [“A child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton/a-child-kicks-his-legs-rhythmically-through-excess-not-absence-of/)

[G.K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-k-chesterton/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/09d/g-k-chesterton-224_children_a-child-kicks-his-legs-rhythmically-thro_861337.jpg)

> [History is the science of things which are not repeated.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-valery/history-is-the-science-of-things-which-are-not-repeated/)

[Paul Valery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-valery/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/853/paul-valery-1464_history_history-is-the-science-of-things-which-a_1284882.jpg)

> [The things, that are repeated again and again, are pleasant.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/the-things-that-are-repeated-again-and-again-are-pleasant/)

[Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/)

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> [That's what History teaches us, I think, that life goes on, even though individuals die and whole civilizations crumble away: The simple…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-reeve/that-s-what-history-teaches-us-i-think-that-life-goes-on-even-though/)

[Philip Reeve](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-reeve/)

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