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    The principle office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
    Tacitus (c. 55–117)

    many an eye that all its age had drawn its
    Beam from a Book ...
    Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)