Famous quotes containing the words history and/or book:
“The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“Upon looking back from the end of the last chapter and surveying the texture of what has been wrote, it is necessary, that upon this page and the five following, a good quantity of heterogeneous matter be inserted, to keep up that just balance betwixt wisdom and folly, without which a book would not hold together a single year.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
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