Doomed to Quote It?

Those who do not learn from history, in Santillana's well-worn phrase, are doomed to repeat it -- in this case, almost word for word, in the same place, a century later.

I came across these quotes via the A Tiny Revolution blog, which got them from a review piece by Tony Judt in The New York Review of Books, which also cited Napoleon, speaking just a little to the east of General Maude, a century earlier yet:

Oh Egyptians... I have not come to you except for the purpose of restoring your rights from the hands of the oppressors

And apparently the NYRB got the quotes in turn from Rashid Khalidi's Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East.

WTG y'all!