#pageant

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

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#history #pageant #philosophy

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration. ↗

— DeWitt Clinton

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#ecstatic #enjoyment #frame #indefinite #knowledge