"Historian: an unsuccessful novelist." — H. L. Mencken

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• Historian - a broad-gauge gossip. — Ambrose Bierce
• The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old… — Buffalo Bill
• Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the… — Dan Brown
• Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them. — George W. Bush
• God cannot alter the past, though historians can. — Samuel Butler
• Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of… — Michael N. Castle
• I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
• The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community… — John Henrik Clarke
• It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does… — Chuck Close
• I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats… — Stephen Ambrose
• As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native… — U Thant
• I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher… — H.G. Wells

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