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After all, there are no generalizations, in history or any other discipline, which do not need more qualification.

— Lawrence Stone

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Like most people, I would imagine, I was eventually taught to love scholarship by a handful of gifted teachers.

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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