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“If history records good things of good men, the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate what is good: or if it records evil of wicked men, the devout, religious listener or reader is encouraged to avoid all that is sinful and perverse and to follow what he knows to be good and pleasing to God.”
― Ecclesiastical History of the English People
― Ecclesiastical History of the English People
“That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.”
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“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”
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“There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.”
― Heretics
― Heretics
“The person who expects to understand history must submerge himself in it, must get rid of patriotism, as well as bitterness. And especially in studying a historic life that consists in insecurity must the historian rid himself of all insecurity. He must accept the totality of the data in all their fullness, the noble with the paltry, thinking of how the two interlock.”
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Mary’s 2025 Year in Books
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443 books
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193 books
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