“No honest historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should be merely a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.”
“There's a good reason why nobody studies history. It just teaches you too much.”
“The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful – because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction.”
“I started to think why people feel comfortable disrespecting us in a way that’s just not normal or natural. And I started to think that it's because our contributions aren't in history textbooks.”
“The ultimate aim of historical writing is the bringing before us the whole truth.”
“Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.”
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