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ITT: Favourite historical quotes
"You've come, have you? ... You've come, you source of tears to many mothers, you evil. I hate you! It is long since I saw you; but as I see you now you are much more terrible, for I see you brandishing the downfall of my country. I hate you!" - Eilmer of Malmesbury on seeing Halley's Comet in 1066
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"I told him"
-King Henry I's physician, who told the king not to eat anymore lampreys, after the king ate a shitload of lampreys anyway and fucking died.
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"Fuck you"
-A fuckton of people
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>>1519747
what was it about the lampreys that killed him?
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>>1519747
Two Emperors from HRE actually died from eating too much melons after a hunt.
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>>1519793
no idea. medieval medicine was just a volley of coincidences and superstitions. maybe they were heavily salted or something obvious like that though.
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t. Voltaire
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>>1519686
>"Come at me you right wee cunt"
-Last words of James III directed to his son at the Battle of Sauchieburn
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>>1519686
Halley's Comet was discovered in 1705. Nice try.
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>>1519847
Dumbass
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>>1519847
stop
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"The devil excretes, and your army eats. You will not, you son of a bitch, make subjects of Christian sons; we've no fear of your army, by land and by sea we will battle with thee, fuck your mother."
The Zaporozhian Cossack reply to Mehmed IV is legendary and priceless.
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