History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past,…

Winston Churchill
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History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. ✨ Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1965). Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words
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