Famous quotes containing the words long and/or history:
“I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus’s spear: if one end kills, the other cures.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)