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- The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.
- I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.
- I strike up conversations all the time and it is very interesting, finding out about things I know nothing about.
- I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words…
- There are two types of people, you see. One type keep their heads straight, and look around as they walk. The others look up -…
- You don't have to be brought up in a grand house to have a sense of the past, and I truly believe that there are…
- He stood beneath the white tower, and looked up at it with that mournful expression which his face always carried in repose: for one moment…
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