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History

Histories of lives are seldom entertaining, unless they contain something either admirable or exemplar. - Benjamin Franklin.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. – Aristotle.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. - Plato.

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