http://loveofhistory.com/quotation-of-the-week-6/ A historical perspective of current events Sun, 04 Feb 2018 14:54:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 http://loveofhistory.com/quotation-of-the-week-6/#comment-217 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:24:06 +0000 http://constantinakatsari.wordpress.com/?p=221#comment-217 If Gibbon means what appears in history books, rather than what actually happened, he has a point. The same goes for newspapers. They are full of people’s wrongdoings and of what has gone wrong by accident. But there is a bright side. The everyday is uninteresting. Therefore newspapers and history books record the exceptional. Therefore our crimes, follies and misfortunes are the exception. The species has, on the whole, done exceptionally well.

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