"The science of fools with long memories."
— James Planché

January 1, 1970

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Description of heraldry. Quoted by Planché in The Pursuivant of Arms; or, Heraldry Founded upon Facts (London: W. M. Wright, 1852) p. 3. Misattributed to Planché in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) p. 692. Sometimes attributed to Voltaire