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"The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false."
- Paul Johnson, The Quotable Paul Johnson: A Topical Compilation of His Wit, Wisdom and Satire, edited by George J. Marlin, et al (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994), p. 138.
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St. Augustine (by Sandro Botticelli)
St. Ignatius Loyola (by Francisco Zurbaran)
Benjamin Rush (by Charles Willson Peale)
Patrick Henry at the Virginia House of Burgesses (by Henry Rothermel)
Edmund Burke (by Sir Joshua Reynolds)
Samuel Adams (by John Singleton Copley)
Alexander Hamilton (by John Trumbull)
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