"It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible."
— Mark Twain

January 1, 1970

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Mark Twain in Eruption: Hitherto Unpublished Pages About Men and Events (1940) edited by Bernard DeVoto