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mk · 3510 days ago · link · · parent · post: 14th Irregular Occasional Give a Quote from Your Recent Reading
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. -Benjamin Disraeli; from an opening chapter quote in Lords of Finance, by Liaquat Ahamed I largely agree with this. Life makes more sense to me when viewed through a historical (in terms of account), rather than philosophical, lens. At least in biography, it is usually pretty clear what someone has done, and the significance is always individual.