But history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. Can you?""Yes, I am fond of history.""I wish I were too. I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all -- it is very tiresome.

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Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey.

Themes

  • History — Lessons from the past and the arc of human civilisation
  • Power — The dynamics of influence, authority, and leadership
  • War — Reflections on conflict, peace, and the human cost of war

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