Important Events Quotes
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The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.
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When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events of our lives originated in the most trifling circumstances; how the beginning of our greatest happiness or greatest misery is to be attributed to a delay, to an accident, to a mistake; we learn a lesson of profound humility.
