“The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.”
Sect. 39; vol. 2, p. 128; H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler (trans.) The Works of Lucian of Samosata.
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“Ignorance is a dreadful thing and has caused no end of damage to the human race.”
Cited in Tim Flannery, Atmosphere of Hope. Solutions to the Climate Crisis, Penguin Books, 2015, page 81 ISBN 9780141981048.
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"Hermotimus, or the Rival Philosophies", sect. 49; vol. 2, p. 69.