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Jacques Barzun on History

1907–2012 United States

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I have always been — I think any student of history almost inevitably is — a cheerful pessimist.

For history, the reward of eluding method is to escape abstraction.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jacques Barzun (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.