Double Agent Stamps! "History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
Wystan Hugh Auden
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."
Sir Francis Bacon
Past and to come seem best; things present worst."
-- Mary Bertone
"History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools."
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce |