"The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border."

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"The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border."

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"There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages."

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"There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still."

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Maya Angelou, American Poet

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"What is history but a fable agreed upon?"

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader

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"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice."

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"There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages."

"There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still."

"Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church."

"The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race."

"If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication."

"The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature."

"The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation."

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"Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery."

"Revolutions are the locomotives of history."

"History is a set of lies agreed upon."

"History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap."

"For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place."

"What is history but a fable agreed upon?"

"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."

"The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice."

"History is more or less bunk."