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What is the source for the Twain quote? I've heard it was misattributed. --66.108.42.146 23:38, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

The earliest source I can find for what was an unsourced quote attributed to Twain is not anything by him, and I have noted this in its entry.

• History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
  • This is very often attributed to Mark Twain, but the earliest published source yet located is by Joseph Anthony Wittreich in Feminist Milton (1987) where he writes: "History may not repeat itself but it does rhyme, and every gloss by a deconstructionist need not be a loss, pushing us further into an abyss of skepticism and indeterminacy."

Thanks for the info on the lack of sourcing of this quote. If any earlier publications of such a remark are found, please note them. ~ Kalki 23:26, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

• • James George Eayrs attributes the quote to Mark Twain as early as 1971 in his book "Diplomacy and its discontents", page 121: "When Mark Twain declared ‘History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes,’ he went about as far as he could go." [1]

• A verse in John Robert Colombo's poem, “A Said Poem”, published in Neo Poems (1970), reads: “ ‘History never repeats itself but it rhymes,’ said Mark Twain.” In a private communication, Colombo wrote: “Twain's observation -- correction: the observation attributed to Twain -- has been around since the 1960s. There is no source for it with which I am familiar.” —KHirsch 02:44, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

• Quote Investigator reports his investigation here: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/12/history-rhymes/ He or she concludes, ". . . the earliest known evidence of this popular quotation appeared in 1970 [by John Robert Colombo as noted above], but that date is many decades after the death of Mark Twain. Hence there is no substantive support for the Twain ascription. Precursors mentioning history and rhyme were published before 1970, but the statements were not compact and witty." In the introduction to the 1874 edition of “The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-Day,” which he co-wrote with his neighbor Charles Dudley Warner, Twain did write "History never repeats itself, but the Kaleidoscopic combinations of the pictured present often seem to be constructed out of the broken fragments of antique legends."

Unsourced

• We spend a great deal of time studying history, which, let's face it, is mostly the history of stupidity.
  • Stephen Hawking

• Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
  • Lee Simonson

• History doesn't always repeat itself. Sometimes it just screams, "Why don't you listen to me?" and lets fly with a big stick.
  • John W. Campbell Jr

• History is an angel falling backward into the future.
  • Laurie Anderson

• History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.
  • James A. Garfield

• History is not a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches.
  • Lord Acton

• History is not to be searched for practical lessons, the applicability of which will always be doubtful in view of the inexhaustible novelty of circumstances and combinations of causes, but just this, that the mind acquire a sensitiveness an imaginative range.
  • Pieter Geyl

• History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.
  • Miguel Cervantes

• History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
  • Konrad Adenauer

• History is waiting to be made as each new opportunity passes before us.
  • J. William Jennings II

• History maketh a young man to be old, without either wrinkles or gray hairs,—privileging him with the experience of age, without either the infirmities or inconveniences thereof.
  • Thomas Fuller

• History teaches everything, even the future.
  • Alphonse de Lamartine

• It is when the hour of the conflict is over that history comes to a right understanding of the strife, and is ready to exclaim, "Lo, God is here, and we knew him not!"
  • Bancroft

• The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.
  • A. Whiteney Brown

• The happiest times of humanity are the blank pages in the book of history.
  • Leopold von Ranke

• The history of man is a series of conspiracies to win from nature some advantage without paying for it.
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson

• The world's history is a divine poem of which the history of every nation is a canto and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian—the humble listener—there has been a divine melody running through the song which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come.
  • James A. Garfield

• There is no history worthy of attention but that of a free people; the history of a people subjected to despotism is only a collection of anecdotes.
  • Nicolas Chamfort

• This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions.
  • Tacitus

• You cannot possibly understand History without first understanding History's past.
  • Dan Bloomfield

• Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
  • Gustave Flaubert

• History is always on the move, slowly eroding today’s orthodoxy and making space for yesterday’s heresy.
  • International Baccalaureate

• I believe that the more you know about the past, the better you are prepared for the future.
  • Theodore Roosevelt

• It is history that teaches us to hope.
  • Robert E Lee

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I'll like to know more about the life we live as human beings 41.116.17.171 00:02, 12 August 2022 (UTC)

You can follow the white rabbit +look into the teachings of vedic astrology, called 'jyotish, esp. the concepts of the 27(originally 28)'nakshatras'(birth stars)and different divisional charts-if you re ready for the red pill, that is, bc the conclusion about life as human beings this leads to is beyond evident and indisputable, but not nearly as fun or cozy. 2001:9E8:6C57:2900:2450:1460:DDBF:64D2 15:33, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

History

History doesn't repeat itself research 175.110.42.114 18:24, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

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There have always been wars, tyrannies and privations. Escapists take refuge in cliches such as “Human nature will never change” and “History always repeats itself!” Nevertheless, human nature is changing before our eyes, and quite new history is being made... It is a new procedure when a large and ever growing section of the public begins to take responsibility for the trend of evolution to such purpose that the community is increasingly honeycombed with progressive movements of every possible kind. This is the new element in history which constitutes a mighty landmark in the development of mankind. ~ Vera Stanley Alder -- the caption is three times the length of the quote