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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it read more
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
What more would you have? He has invented history.
[Fr., Que voulez-vous de plus? Il a invente l'histoire.]
What more would you have? He has invented history.
[Fr., Que voulez-vous de plus? Il a invente l'histoire.]
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
History is the essence of innumerable Biographies.
History is the essence of innumerable Biographies.
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
History is philosophy learned from examples.
History is philosophy learned from examples.
True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?
True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
