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Irish novelist, playwright, short-story writer and historian 1969Related quotes
“History repeats itself: historians repeat each other.”
Philip Guedalla (1889–1944) British historical writer
" Some Historians http://books.google.com/books?id=E0luAAAAMAAJ&q=%22History+repeats+itself+historians+repeat+each+other%22&pg=PA20#v=onepage," Supers & Supermen: Studies in Politics, History and Letters (1920)
“History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Origins unclear. Earliest known match in print comes from 1970, in a collection called “Neo Poems” by Canadian artist John Robert Colombo, who recalled reading it sometime in the 1960s. Twain did say "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." in the 1874 edition of “The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-Day”. A thematic precursor, "History May Not Repeat, But It Looks Alike", appears in a 1941 article by Chicago Tribune in Illinois. (Source: Quote Investigator https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/12/history-rhymes/) <br class="br">Misattributed
Stanisław Lem book Solaris
Source: Solaris (1961), Ch. 14: "The Old Mimoid", p. 204 [elipsis in original]
“It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.”
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
Wars I Have Seen (1945)
“History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.”
Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union
As quoted in Peter's Quotations: Ideas For Our Time (1977) edited by Laurence J. Peter, p. 248
“History repeats itself all the time on Wall Street.”
Edwin Lefèvre book Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XVIII, p. 217
