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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (139175)2/9/2018 6:29:00 PM
From: Elroy Jetson  Read Replies (2) of 218880
 
It's a fun quote, but Mark Twain actually wrote:
History never repeats itself, but the Kaleidoscopic combinations of the pictured present often seem to be constructed out of the broken fragments of antique legends.

- Mark Twain, “The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-Day”, 1874
People like to paraphrase this, but I think Mark Twain's version is infinitely better.

In a 1903 commentary on his previous work including “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” Twain added this footnote :

NOTE. November, 1903. When I became convinced that the “Jumping Frog” was a Greek story two or three thousand years old, I was sincerely happy, for apparently here was a most striking and satisfactory justification of a favorite theory of mine—to wit, that no occurrence is sole and solitary, but is merely a repetition of a thing which has happened before, and perhaps often.
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