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Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

Herodotus
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No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'

C. S. Lewis
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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Antoine Rivarol
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The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.

James A. Froude
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Mark is a good historian, very talented and distinguished. We're eager to welcome him.

John Mcgreevy
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A historian is a prophet in reverse.

Friedrich Von Schlegel
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HISTORIAN, n. A broad-gauge gossip.

Ambrose Bierce
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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

H. L. Mencken
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The historian is a prophet looking backwards.

August Wilhelm Von Schlegel
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I think the game was out of hand before that (home run). It doesn't (mean a great deal) because I don't have anything to compare it to. I'm not a baseball historian. I don't go home and add it up. I'll add it all up after I retire.

Jeff Kent
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Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.

Peter Gay
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

Barbara W. Tuchman
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Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

Lee Simonson
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The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.

Paul De Man
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I'm very excited, especially traveling with the president, who is a historian on Scotland.

Thomas Keith
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My - well, I'm very fortunate. I married an art historian who, you know, with whom I travel, and we have a great time.

Dan Brown
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When I'm thinking like a historian, I tend to be a little depressed. But when I'm thinking like a Christian, I tend to be optimistic.

Mark Noll
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A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.

Francois Fenelon
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The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave.

Edward Morgan Forster
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