Stock/history

Famous quotes containing the words stock and/or history:

    “A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.”
    —David Hume (1711–1776)

    “The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)