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Christian kingdoms hate one another and are divided on how best to show their love for Jesus Christ. How mad, you think, to hate over how best to love.
Perhaps men could accustom themselves to living with a small amount of doubt. I think doubt a necessary ingredient to live.”
Matthew Thatcher, in his first year at the hall, had drawn and written guides for the cooks and boys, so that all the baron’s people were, with much effort, brought up to the level of knowledge equal to that of a juvenile squirrel.
The highest task of intelligence: to imagine a future and then smooth its approach.
History is written by the future, and therefore distorted at its start.