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Re: Expanded phrase?, ORIGINAL PHRASE?Posted by Larry on March 10, 2003 In Reply to: Expanded phrase? posted by Larry on March 09, 2003 I am trying to answer a followup and hope this is how to do it. The most commonly quoted "original" goes something like this: "Those who don't learn from the lessons of history are bound to repeat them". See link below to another discussion on this site. : A few years ago, I read that the correct phrase is, "Those who do not learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them." : This version makes more sense than the commonly quoted phrase, which implies that nothing from the past is worth repeating. That is patently false and indefensible and is why I would never use the common phrase to make a point. : Question: was Santayana misquoted? Or merely wrong?
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