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“We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.”

Years Loses History Consequence Bounds Stupidity Cruelty Ireland Foe

Author:William E. Gladstone

“It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable.”

Might Age Loses Common History Old Age Desirable Calamity Roman Empire

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 3: Complete in Eight Volumes

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 3: Complete in Eight Volumes

“Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.”

Thinking Men Life War Young Lying Loses History Land Shame Young Man Remembrance Sprung

Author:A. E. Housman

“Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.”

Inspiration Loses History Records Teacher Teaching African American Accomplished Retirement Biographies Black History

Author:Carter G. Woodson

“Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.”

Literature Loses History Sight Relation Mere Practicals Fades Vulgar

Book:The Expansion of England: Two Courses of Lectures

Source: The Expansion of England: Two Courses of Lectures