History of Pittsburgh/reinvention 1973%e2%80%93present

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“The history of literature—take the net result of Tiraboshi, Warton, or Schlegel,—is a sum of a very few ideas, and of very few original tales,—all the rest being variation of these.”
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“The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.”
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