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The True Historian, Therefore, Seeking To Compose A True Picture Of The Thing Acted, Must Collect Facts And Combine Facts. Methods Will Differ, Styles Will Differ. Nobody Ever Does Anything Like Anybody Else; But The End In View Is Generally The Same, And The Historian's End Is Truthful Narration. Maxims He Will Have, If He Is Wise, Never A One; And As For A Moral, If He Tell His Story Well, It Will Need None; If He Tell It Ill, It Will Deserve None.

It Can Never Be Wrong To Give Pleasure.

There Are No Habits Of Man More Alien To The Doctrine Of The Communist Than Those Of The Collector

Good As It Is To Inherit A Library, It Is Better To Collect One.

That Great Dust-heap Called 'history'.