Quotes on history

“Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”

Jane Austen
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“Surprizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.”

Jane Austen
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“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”

Jane Austen
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“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.”

Jane Austen
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“Wait”

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“When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir… America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.”

Martin Luther King Jr.
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“I have also decided to stick with love…hate is too great a burden to bear.”

Martin Luther King Jr.
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“I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low; the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.”

Martin Luther King Jr.
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“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

Martin Luther King Jr.
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“A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.”

Martin Luther King Jr.
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