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The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his own ignorance; he is perpetually confronted with his own humiliating inability to interpret his material correctly; he is, in a sense that no other writer is, in bondage to that material.

C. V. Wedgwood's Popular Quotes

All normal human beings are interested in their past. Only when the interest becomes an obsession, overshadowing present and future conduct, is it a …

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History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it…

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Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.

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My own varying estimates of the facts themselves, as the years passed, showed me too clearly how much of history must always rest in the eye of the b…

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Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain; we …

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historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics.

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Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.

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International politics, by and large, are a depressing study.

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Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair.

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