The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free.…

Herman Melville
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before. ✨ Herman Melville (2000). White-jacket, Or, The World in a Man-of-war, p.152, Oxford University Press, USA
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