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“Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“I repeat that in this sense the most splendid court in Christendom is provincial, having authority to consult about Transalpine interests only, and not the affairs of Rome. A prætor or proconsul would suffice to settle the questions which absorb the attention of the English Parliament and the American Congress.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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