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A historian should "go on reading (...) until you can hear people talking. Then you will understand why things happened as they did."

— G. M. Young Today and Yesterday (1948)

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The greater part of what passes for diplomatic history is little more than the record of what one clerk said to another clerk.

Victorian England: Portrait of an Age (1936)

A man has no more right to an opinion for which he cannot account than to a pint of beer for which he cannot pay.

The human mind is still something of a troglodyte. Expelled from one falling cavern, its first thought is to find another.

Portrait of an Age (1936)

To play King Richard to somebody else's Wat Tyler has always been a Tory fancy.

Portrait of an Age (1936)

A flight of perplexed unstable minds into the Confessional, into Spiritualism, into strange Eastern Cults.

Portrait of an Age (1936)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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