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“Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone.”

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Author:Mary Boykin Chesnut

“Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.”

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Author:A. A. Gill

“The Battle of Koom Valley is the only one known to history where both sides ambushed each other.”

Sides Known History Humour Battle Valleys Both Sides Discworld

Book:Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15)

Source: Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15)

“Christianity was preached by ignorant men and believed by servants, and that is why it resembles nothing ever known.”

Men Art Philosophy Known Christianity History Ignorant Servant

Author:Joseph de Maistre

“In western civilization, the period ruled by mysticism is known as the 'Dark Ages' and the 'Middle Ages'. I will assume that you know the nature of that period and the state of human existence in those ages. The Renaissance broke the rules of the mystics. "Renaissance" means the "rebirth". Few people today will care to remind you that it was a rebirth of reason - of man's mind.”

“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.”

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Author:Matthew Arnold