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“The Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.”
—Bible: New Testament Acts, 17:21.
“History by apprising them [students] of the past will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
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