"Bayle is suggesting that any merely truthful account of mankind is liable to take on the appearance of a slander simply because the usual run of mankind is more likely to be ignoble than noble, and that the truth itself is therefore more than likely to take on the aspect of a calumny."
- Hayden White, Metahistory
Smoke between the flags
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"She's got some years on her, doesn't she?" said the woman walking toward
us cheerfully with her somewhat less cheerful husband. "But she's perky."
She...
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