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Quotes from History as a Literary Art — Samuel Eliot Morison

1887–1976 United States

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You do not need chariots and horsemen, harps and war-horns, to make history interesting.

History as a Literary Art (1946)

The great historians, with few exceptions, are those who have not merely studied, but lived; and whose studies have ranged over a much wider field than the period or subject of which they write.

History as a Literary Art (1946)

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