"The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context"

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Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always colored by their political prejudices, or distorted to establish some theory . . .

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington