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Just a week ago I was thinking that we can`t possibly keep up this pace, and I was almost bracing myself for a first-round loss. I thought that this was just too good to be true, fate`s going to get me back.

- Melanie Troxel

"Reading history is good for all of us," he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a fresh, somewhat bracing thought: "If you know history, you know that there is no such thing as a self-made man or self-made woman. We are shaped by people we have never met. Yes, reading history will make you a better citizen and more appreciative of the law, and of freedom, and of how the economy works or doesn`t work, but it is also an immense pleasure'”the way art is, or music is, or poetry is. And it`s never stale."

- David C. McCullough