The more of a student he is—and no one can be a historian without being a very devoted student—the more he is removed from that intimate contact with men of all classes and of all modes of thought, from which the statesman derives by far the greater part of that knowledge of mankind which enables him to give useful play to his imaginative power for their benefit.

— Samuel Rawson Gardiner History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of the Civil War, 1603–1642, Vol. X. 1641–1642 (1884)

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