The Book of History is the Bible of Irony. - George Saintsbury

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The Book of History is the Bible of Irony.

George Saintsbury

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About George Saintsbury

George Edward Bateman Saintsbury (23 October 1845 – 28 January 1933) was a prolific and popular English historian and literary scholar.

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Birth Name: George Edward Bateman Saintsbury

Alternative Names: G. Sa

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[It] is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.

Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.