Quote: God cannot alter the past, but historians can.

God cannot alter the past, but historians can.

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There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

Historian. A broad -- gauge gossip.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.