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The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Approximate author period: c. 1928 AD · modern

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Author or tradition
Aldous Huxley
Attribution: attributed
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Historical period
Approximate author period: c. 1928 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1894 to 1963; Wikidata Q81447, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q81447 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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