History fades into fable fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription moulders from the tablet; the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand, and their epitaphs but characters written in the dust?
Washington Irving
Even great monuments and history itself eventually crumble into dust and doubt.
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