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“Anything but history, for history must be false.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Walpoliana. No. 141.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 61516a5b394f1d54fbd37de6c43e5caa3bc03a83967a5900d9f36c6780b60fd1
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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