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Lessons from the Ages

Someone asked the American historian Charles A. Beard if he could summarize the lessons of history in a brief book. He said he could do it in four sentences: "(1) Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power; (2) The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small; (3) The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; (4) When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."

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