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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

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Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones. ↗

— Kathryn Hulme

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Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household. ↗

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

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A man's house is his castle. ↗

— James Otis

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He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance. ↗

— David Hume

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The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue. ↗

— David Hume

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