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In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was.

Cormac McCarthy
Groups, Might, All The Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.227, Pan Macmillan
In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was.