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"The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise." — Edward Gibbon
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Choice    English Historian   

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"The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule." — Anita Brookner
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Beginning    English Historian   

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"Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all." — James Froude
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English Historian    Mistakes   

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"If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost." — Michel Foucault
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Age And Aging    English Historian   

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"In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating." — Michel Foucault
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English Historian    Power   

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"Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma." — Philip Guedalla
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"Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people." — Philip Guedalla
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"As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end." — Michel Foucault
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English Historian    Man   

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"Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes." — James Froude
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English Historian    Experience   

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"Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification." — Martin Fischer
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English Historian    Facts   

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"Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline." — Michel Foucault
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English Historian    Society   

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"People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them." — Philip Guedalla
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English Historian    People   

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"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." — Martin Fischer
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"The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender." — Philip Guedalla
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English Historian    Work   

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"Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society." — Michel Foucault
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English Historian    Power   

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"A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking." — Martin Fischer
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"The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society." — James Froude
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Endurance    English Historian   

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"What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life." — Michel Foucault
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Art    English Historian   

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"The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just." — Anita Brookner
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Books And Reading    English Historian   

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"Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them." — Martin Fischer
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Drugs    English Historian   

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"Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art." — Michel Foucault
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Art    English Historian   

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