Quote by Robert Hall
Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is t

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history. – Robert Hall

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A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity. – Robert Hall

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In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits. – Robert Hall

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power
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Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy. – Robert Hall

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History is more or less bunk. – Henry Ford

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Human history in essence is the history of ideas. – H. G. Wells

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[History is a] mixture of error and violence. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. – Salman Rushdie

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