History repeats itself but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

Joseph Conrad
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  1. History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

  2. The Lord Chief Justice of England recently said that the greater part of his judicial time was spent investigating collisions between propelled vehicles each on its own side of the road each sounding its horn and each stationary.

  3. I had always assumed that cliche was a suburb of Paris until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.

  4. The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James 1st James 2nd and the Old Pretender.

  5. Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.

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