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| History Funny Quotes | No. | Quotation | Last Name | First Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Historian has to fight against temptations special to his mode of life, temptations from country, class, church, college, party, authority of talents, solicitation of friends. | Acton | Lord |
| 2 | Advice to persons about to write history -- don't. | Acton | Lord |
| 3 | No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics. | Adams | Henry |
| 4 | History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. | Bierce | Ambrose |
| 5 | The main thing is to make history, not to write it. | Bismarck | Otto von |
| 6 | The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom. | Bodin | Jean |
| 7 | History is philosophy teaching by examples. | Bolingbroke | Henry |
| 8 | History is a set of lies agreed upon. | Bonaparte | Napoleon |
| 9 | What is history but a fable agreed upon? | Bonaparte | Napoleon |
| 10 | History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn. | Burke | Edmund |
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