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In these
Frome pages, AskWhy! gives a few facts about the history and people of Frome and its Wessex environs. It is in the heart of the old Saxon kingdom of Wessex, and therefore at the center of a plethora of interesting historical houses and places. Frome is a long neglected town, but the neglect has preserved much of it, and it is slowly reviving as its more glamoorous neighbours get too expensive or overcrowded. It is not a tourist attraction itself but is just the place for a holiday center for seeing old England from Stonehenge to the Tank Museum, with a few tankards of cider thrown in of an evening! Cheers!
The Wisdom of Carl
When you buy a used car, you might want to believe what the salesman is saying: “So much car for so little money!” And it takes work to be sceptical. You have to know something about cars, and it’s unpleasant if the salesman gets angry. Even so, you recognize that the salesman might have a motive to shade the truth, and you’ve heard of other people being taken in. So you kick the tyres, look under the hood, go for a test drive, ask questions. You might bring along a mechanically inclined friend. You know some scepticism is required and why. If you don’t exercise some minimal scepticism, if you have an absolutely untrammelled gullibility, there’s a price you’ll have to pay later when you find the car is duff.
Carl Sagan, The Demon Haunted World (1996)
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