“Life’s better, sounder, when we don’t brood unnecessarily on horrors.”

Source: The Historian (2005), Ch. 4
Context: Life’s better, sounder, when we don’t brood unnecessarily on horrors. As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.

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