OSCAR WILDE OBSERVES
Cicero says that history may be used to learn from the lives and mistakes of others. I would do so, if any one in the past had been as unique as I.
MARK TWAIN REMARKS
The primary purpose of history is to provide a relatively harmless past-time for history teachers, lest they otherwise become insurance salesmen. As teachers they are slightly less annoying, as they tend to be concentrated in classrooms and thus can more easily be avoided.
THE DOG OF OSCAR WILDE AND THE FROG OF MARK TWAIN
FAMOUS PETS
