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Britain will be honoured by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it. ↗

— Lord Harlech

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Historian - a broad-gauge gossip. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent. ↗

— Peter Conrad

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The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

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Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

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The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors. ↗

— Antoine Rivarol

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