Applause/history

Famous quotes containing the words applause and/or history:

“Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

“The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. We suspect they are unworthy. We arraign our daily employments.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)