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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 a set of lies agreed upon.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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?
All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.
All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.
The long historian of my country's woes.
The long historian of my country's woes.
They died hard, those savage men-like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. read more
They died hard, those savage men-like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
The fate of a nation has often depended on the food or bad digestion of a prime minister.
The fate of a nation has often depended on the food or bad digestion of a prime minister.
Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more read more
Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.
