Sunday, March 22, 2009

Daily Dose


From Eminent Victorians, by Lytton Strachey

HISTORIANS

"The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For 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."

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