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«To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.»
«We have an enormous fixation on, what seems to me to be, the na?ve idea that truth resides in what somebody wrote sometime in the past. If it's not written down, it isn't true. And that's absurd. But it's the way historians are trained: you have to have a source, and if you don't have something you can cite from an original source, in the original language, then you're not a really good historian, you're are not scientific, you're not true .»
Author: William H. McNeill
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cite, cited, citing, fixation, historian, Historians, resides, sometime, trained
«Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.»
«To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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accurate, culture, description, descriptions, historian, inalienable, occupation, occurred, privilege, proper
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