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The evidence of history is against you. The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation. It is a question of getting the true perspective, of seeing things in proportion.
The evidence of history is against you. The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation. It is a question of getting the true perspective, of seeing things in proportion.
Approximate author period: c. 1933 AD · modern
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- Agatha Christie
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- Approximate author period: c. 1933 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1890 to 1976; Wikidata Q35064, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35064 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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