"I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples."
— History

January 1, 1970

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Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, On the Study and Use of History, Letter 2. Also quoted by Thomas Carlyle, Essays, History.