[Ads-l] "History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes"

[Laurence Horn]

--attributed two days ago to Mark Twain by America's documentarian laureate
Ken Burns on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Burns is obviously
unfamiliar with Garson's QI entry,
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/12/history-rhymes/, which would have
set him straight.  Of course, as noted in the entry, Burns isn't alone in
his misapprehension. That Twain was certainly a quote magnet for the ages.

LH

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