


Could a historiographer drive on his history, as a muleteer drives on his mule, he might foretell when he should get to journey's end; but the thing is impossible: For, if he is a man of the least spirit, he will have various Accounts to reconcile: Anecdotes to pick up: Inscriptions to make out: Stories to weave in: Traditions to sift: Personages to call upon: Panegyricks to paste up at this door; Pasquinades at that: All which both the man and his mule are quite exempt from. --L. Sterne
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