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The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.
— T. S. Eliot
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The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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