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QUOTATION:Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian—ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
ATTRIBUTION:Lytton Strachey (1880–1932), British biographer, historian. Eminent Victorians, preface (1918).
 
 
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