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“Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry.”
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“If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.”
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“Memoirs are the backstairs of history.”
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“So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand.”
― The History of the Peloponnesian War
― The History of the Peloponnesian War
“Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.”
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Avis’s 2025 Year in Books
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