For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
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Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?
How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.
The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.
History is a confused heap of facts.
History is a confused heap of facts.
The historian sees backward. In the end he also believes backward.
The historian sees backward. In the end he also believes backward.
I have no history but the length of my bones.
I have no history but the length of my bones.
Throughout history females have picked providers. males have picked anything.
Throughout history females have picked providers. males have picked anything.
