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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 856
AUTHOR: Karl Marx (1818–83)
QUOTATION: Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
ATTRIBUTION: KARL MARX, “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon,” part 1, in On Revolution (vol. 1 of The Karl Marx Library), ed. and trans. Saul K. Padover, p. 245 (1971).
SUBJECTS: History