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I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something read more
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
How many pens are broken, how many ink bottles consumed, to write about things that have never happened.
How many pens are broken, how many ink bottles consumed, to write about things that have never happened.
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?
The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides
appears to assert when he says history is philosophy read more
The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides
appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from
examples.
History is the essence of innumerable Biographies.
History is the essence of innumerable Biographies.
And history with all her volumes vast,
Hath but one page.
And history with all her volumes vast,
Hath but one page.
Just as philosophy is the study of other people's misconceptions, so history is the study of other people's mistakes.
Just as philosophy is the study of other people's misconceptions, so history is the study of other people's mistakes.
History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
History is a pageant, not a philosophy.
History is a pageant, not a philosophy.
