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From history we learn not only the past, but the future.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “From history we learn not only the past, but the future.”
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Sumner reflects on the lessons history teaches us about future possibilities.
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The only Constitutional party and party of freedom, VII. 38.
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Working-men of Europe, desire abolition of war, XVIII. 236.
Disunion no remedy for grievances of, VII. 33.
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