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“[Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy; and really good books on these subjects are as enthralling as any fiction ever written in prose or verse.”

Book Philosophy Government Science Interesting Fiction History Written Subjects Ought Accounts Prose Verses Good Book Statesmen Science And Philosophy Interesting Book

Book:Bully!

Source: Bully!

“It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.”

Past History Ought Cost Controversy

Book:Don Quixote

Source: Don Quixote

“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.”

Men Life Motivational Differences Animal History Laughing Human Nature Ought Laughter Pet Miscellaneous Humans And Animals

Author:William Hazlitt

“The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his own ignorance; he is perpetually confronted with his own humiliating inability to interpret his material correctly; he is, in a sense that no other writer is, in bondage to that material.”

Men History Ignorance Materials Ought Evidence Historian Dozen Bondage Inability Humiliating

Author:C. V. Wedgwood

“Whatever is goode in its kinde ought to be preserv'd in respect for antiquity, as well as our present advantage, for destruction can be profitable to none but such as live by it.”

Wells History Ought Advantage Destruction Live By Profitable Antiquity

Author:Nicholas Hawksmoor

“The women of this country ought be enlightened in regard to the laws under which they live, that they may no longer publish their degradation by declaring themselves satisfied with their present position, nor their ignorance, by asserting that they have all the rights they want.”

Want May Country Law Women History Rights Position Ignorance Ought Regard Satisfied Enlightened Womens Rights Publish Degradation Declaring

Book:The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: In the school of anti-slavery, 1840 to 1866

Source: The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: In the school of anti-slavery, 1840 to 1866

“You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.”

World Doe Past History Judging Ought Office Contemporary Yield

Author:Leopold von Ranke

“The historian ought to be an educated person, writing for other educated people about something which they don't know about, but wish to know about in a way that they can understand.”

People Knows Way Writing Persons Wish History Ought Educated Historian Educated Person

Author:John Keegan

“The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical world, that our study and contemplation of the earth, and the laws which govern its animate productions, ought no more to be considered in the light of a disturbance or deviation from the system, than the discovery of the satellites of Jupiter should be regarded as a physical event in the history of those heavenly bodies, however influential they may have become from that time in advancing the progress of sound philosophy among men.”

Source: Principles of Geology