#history

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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In 1974, the modeling world changed. Jerry Ford and my lawyer negotiated the deal for the first exclusive contract in modeling history. ↗

— Lauren Hutton

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For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

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There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life. ↗

— Benjamin Harrison

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Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall. ↗

— Paul Harris

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Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. ↗

— J. D. Hayworth

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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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