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“The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 12a07b9c301efc831c1a4b04f38fe230d119f808e20eb2a46d0931c079034e51
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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