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To Be A Really Good Historian Is Perhaps The Rarest Of Intellectual Distinctions.

We Must Judge A Government By Its General Tendencies And Not By Its Happy Accidents.

Politeness Has Been Well Defined As Benevolence In Small Things.

People Who Take No Pride In The Noble Achievements Of Remote Ancestors Will Never Achieve Anything Worthy To Be Remembered With Pride By Remote Descendants.

In That Temple Of Silence And Reconciliation Where The Enmities Of Twenty Generations Lie Buried, In The Great Abbey Which Has During Many Ages Afforded A Quiet Resting-place To Those Whose Minds And Bodies Have Been Shattered By The Contentions Of The Great Hall.