Valerius/history

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    “The night discharged of all care
    Where wine may bear no sovereignty;
    The chaste wife wise, without debate;
    Such sleeps as may beguile the night;
    Contented with thine own estate;
    Neither wish death, nor fear his might.”
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    “All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.”
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