Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider... Histories make men wise.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment
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History makes people wise.
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