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“The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.”
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- Source:
- Book ii. Chap. x. Of Books.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2b72a9ce6678116b44ac52f222771f527ad9e01cc07cbe081458095091ab5407
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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