Famous quotes containing the words history of, history and/or era:
“Universal history is the history of a few metaphors.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (18991986)
“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”
—Henry James (18431916)
“The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living terms ... once had a vast and perhaps perfect science of its own, a science in terms of life. In our era this science crumbled into magic and charlatanry. But even wisdom crumbles.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
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