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“What I have always loved about the history of the world is that it is true. That all the extraordinary things we read were…

— Gombrich Ernst H

“History foretells that when you give an ordinary person the wisdom of what is right and the dignity to follow his or her heart,…

— Dew Platt

“That was the wonderful thing about historical novels, one met so many famous people. It was like reading a very old copy of Hello!…

— Edward St. Aubyn

“After all, life was like that for most of us – the small unpleasantnesses rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather…

— Barbara Pym

“The world has been given a treasure through which its inhabitants can attain greatness if they so desire.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“what was once associated with deafening, dangerous, and stultifying work could now be admired as historic creations and greeted with reverential, if only quasi-informed,…

— Kay S. Hymowitz

“But they lived those extraordinary lives that can never be lived again. And in the living of them, they gave me a history that…

— Utah Phillips

“What is the greatest benefit in the world? The association with good people. Those who are considered somewhat worthy of reverence by society.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“The truly great are, in my view, always bound to feel a great sense of sadness during their time upon earth.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“There is an enduring freshness in what remains strange and obscure which the cliches of greatness can only evoke nostalgia for.”

— Bauvard

“...the pleasures of the world are chiefly folly, and the business of it mostly knavery, and both nothing better than vanity; the men of…

— Henry Fielding

“Great things seem complex and cause the nations to rush towards the minor things that seem easy to reach, hence, they perish. And again…

— Blaise Tshibwabwa