Mark Twain Quote

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Mark Twain in Eruption: Hitherto Unpublished Pages About Men and Events (1940) edited by Bernard DeVoto

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.

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.

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.

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.