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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. - E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster
Attribution: E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879–1970), British novelist, essayist. (Essay first published 1931). “Captain Edward Gibbon,” Abinger Harvest (1936).

Categories: Essayist, Historians

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