History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes  

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"History never repeats itself, but the Kaleidoscopic combinations of the pictured present often seem to be constructed out of the broken fragments of antique legends."--The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner

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"History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes" is a dictum erroneously attributed to Mark Twain.

Its origins are attributed to Theodor Reik although a similar dictum may be found in The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-Day (1873 by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner (see inset).

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