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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.
To give an accurate description of what never happened is the proper occupation of the historian.
To give an accurate description of what never happened is the proper occupation of the historian.
Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better.
Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better.
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
History repeats itself; historians repeat each other.
History repeats itself; historians repeat each other.
The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the read more
The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the world, the King the word of whose mouth destroys mountains and seas, who by his lordly attack has forced mighty and merciless Kings from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same to acknowledge one supremacy.
History: An account, mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
History: An account, mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
What is a society without a heroic dimension?
What is a society without a heroic dimension?
