Or, in which I discover the visually pleasing qualities of a human navel...
"History, that is, a rehearsal of the events of human tragedy. [...] Words cannot do sufficient justice to the importance of this. [...] For the study of human history makes men gentle, humble, and careful, so the ignorance of it keeps him crude toward himself and others, proud, and hasty towards his own and the state's undoing."
From Johann Valentin Andreae's Chrisianopolis (1616)
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