For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.
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