The historian must have some

“The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave.”     Edward Morgan Forster

“I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.”     Albert Camus

“What men desire is a virgin who is a whore.”     Edward Dahlberg

“History … is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.”     Edward Gibbon

“Every man should make up his own mind that if he expects to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man’s dollar.”     Edward H. Harriman