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— Edward Gibbon"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave."
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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
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