To seek Divinity merely in books is to seek the living among the dead... seek God within your own soul.
History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living.
Your aim's as bad as your cooking sweetheart... and that's saying something!
As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.
But our comedies never endured long without a tragedy.
The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.