From history books you should at best believe just the punctuation. The rest is uncertain, incomplete, distorted, exaggerated or even fabricated.

A.J. Beirens
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To believe everything you read is a recipe for disaster. The history books that we read show us the past and they paint a picture of what life used to be like. They leave out most of the good and bad things about it and try to make things seem rosy with a few gray areas thrown in for flavor. This is why we should only believe the punctuation. The rest is uncertain, incomplete, distorted, exaggerated or even fabricated.

Source: Gesels Van Een Imaginaire God

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