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"The historian is a prophet in reverse." »Friedrich von Schlegel
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"historian: an unsuccessful novelist." »H. L. Mencken
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"The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave." »Edward Morgan Forster
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"To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse." »Barbara Tuchman
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"Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian." »Lee Simonson
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"The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers." »G. M. Trevelyan
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"I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destiny of man." »Steven Runciman
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"Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects." »Herodotus
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"The history of the Victorian Age will never be written we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art." »Lytton Strachey
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"The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art." »Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians (1918)
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"Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues, the modern historian too often takes refuge in learned articles or narrowly specialized dissertations, small fortresses that are easy to defend from attack." »Steven Runciman
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