Experience is a vital teacher if one will learn from it well: people are mistaught and mistaken all the time. History is experience writ large, so we try to learn from it, too, but recorded history is not lived history. The most vital lessons of history are the lived lessons, but one has to choose to live them. Everyone lives through history, swirling a…
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