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Tho' marriage be a lottery in which there are a wondrous many blanks, yet there is one inestimable lot in which the only heaven on earth is written. Sir John Vanbrugh		Sunday Jul 13, 2025
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Quoting Thucydides: 'The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples.' Dionysius of Halicarnassus

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	Dionysius of Halicarnassus
	Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Halicarnassus c. 60 BC - after 7 BC) was a Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, who flourished during the reign of Caesar Augustus. Read More

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History is philosophy teaching by examples. Quoting Thucydides: 'The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples.'