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“History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes.”
Provenance
- Source:
- L'Ingénu. Chap. x. (1767.)
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0c81cad606997081cf4543aabd45ff769a26fb3061258e8911b537b8bec55b06
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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