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Steven Runciman Quotes

1903–2000 England

Sir James Cochran Stevenson Runciman CH (7 July 1903 – 1 November 2000), better known as Sir Steven Runciman, was a British historian known for his studies of eastern Christendom during the Middle Ages.

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Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with a sword.

Riches should come as the reward for hard work, preferably one's forebears'.

I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destinies of man.

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