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Historian · American · 1814–1877
American historian (1814–1877)
“A good lawyer is a bad Christian.”
“History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.”
“You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.”
“The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only matter in spontaneous motion; and, most grievous word of ...”
“Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds not stones are the true monuments of the great.”