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If history records good things of good men, the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to… — Venerable Bede

Historical literature

If history records good things of good men, the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate what is good.

In the original Latin

Siue enim historia de bonis bona referat, ad imitandum bonum auditor sollicitus instigatur;

Venerable Bede
731
★ 1.2
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Current citation
Bede. "Ecclesiastical History of the English People." The Ecclesiastical History of the English People; The Greater Chronicle; Bede's Letter to Egbert, edited by Judith McClure and Roger Collins. Oxford University Press, 2009, preface.
Original citation
Bede. Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum [Ecclesiastical History of the English People]. c. 731, preface.

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