Paul Johnson Quotes

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Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.
— Paul Johnson in The New York Times

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The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.
— Paul Johnson

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