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«A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.»
Author: Francois Fenelon | Keywords: flatter, historian, His country, patriot, timeless
«A historian is a prophet in reverse»
Author: Friedrich von Schlegel (Critic, Writer) | Keywords: historian, prophet, reverse
«Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.»
Author: Lee Simonson | About: Competence, Events | Keywords: competent, historian, occurred
«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.»
Author: Lytton Strachey | Keywords: clarified, clarifies, clarifying, historian, omit, omits, omitting, placid, requisite, selects, simplifies
«Actors yearn for the perfect director, athletes for the perfect coach, priests for the perfect pope, presidents for the perfect historian. Writers hunger for the perfect reviewer.»
Author: Thomas Fleming | Keywords: coach, director, historian, pope, Presidents, priests, reviewer, reviewers, yearn
«Every historian discloses a new horizon»
Author: George Sand | Keywords: disclosed, discloses, historian, horizon
«Historian. A broad - gauge gossip.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: broad, broad gauge, gauge, gauged, gauging, gossip, historian
«Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken (Critic, Journalist) | Keywords: historian, novelist, the novelist, unsuccessful
«A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: convey, conveys, diameter, diameters, enlarge, enlarging, historian, reader, to enlarge
«Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his hand; so there is no exercise of invention. Imagination is not required in any degree; only about as much as is used in the lowest kinds of poetry. Some penetration, accuracy, and coloring, will fit a man for the task, if he can give the application which is necessary.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: accuracy, coloring, historian, penetration, quiescent, requisite, to the lowest degree
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