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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; na

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. – Francis Bacon

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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. – Francis Bacon

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History is always changing. – Aung San Suu Kyi

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Historys a resource. – Laura Linney

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God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended. – David Wilkerson

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History… is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. – James Joyce, Ulysses

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