• History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.

    Alexis de Tocqueville: History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.
    Alexis de Tocqueville (2013). “The Old Regime and the Revolution: The controversial bestselling guide to the origins of the French Revolution”, p.100, Harriman House Limited