Puzzle/history

Famous quotes containing the words puzzle and/or history:

    “—My good friend, quoth I—as sure as I am I—and you are you
    —And who are you? said he.—Don’t puzzle me; said I.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    “... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.”
    —Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)