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Aldous Huxley

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

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Aldous Huxley is pointing out that people often fail to remember or apply what history teaches them. This failure to learn from past events is itself a key fact that history reveals about human behavior.

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