History is the propaganda of the victors. - Louis de Bernieres

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A river continually fed by a living fountain may as soon end its streams before it come to the ocean, as a stop be put to the course and progress of grace before it issue in glory.

Louis de Bernieres

History is the propaganda of the victors.

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