The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (274 page)

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HISTORY repeats itself
1858
Janet's Repentance
in
Scenes of Clerical Life
II. x.
History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.
1865
Marian Rooke
III. v. i.
History, it is said, repeats itself .. Few but are reminded almost every day .. of something that has gone before.
1957
Testament of Experience
11
History tends to defy the familiar aphorism; whether national or personal, it seldom repeats itself.
1971
Alamut Ambush
xiii.
Maybe history repeats itself—but I have to have facts.

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