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> [I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-kagan/i-can-see-that-you-are-a-true-historian-because-you-really-always/)

[Donald Kagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-kagan/)

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> [ I can see that you \[Bruce Cole\] are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different? ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-kagan/i-can-see-that-you-bruce-cole-are-a-true-historian-because-you-really/)

[Donald Kagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-kagan/)

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## More by Donald Kagan

> [ In Our Underachieving Colleges, \[Derek\] Bok acts as both diagnostician and healer, wielding social-science statistics and professional studies to trace the etiology of today's… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-kagan/in-our-underachieving-colleges-derek-bok-acts-as-both-diagnostician/)

[Donald Kagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-kagan/)

> [I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-kagan/i-can-see-that-you-are-a-true-historian-because-you-really-always/)

[Donald Kagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-kagan/)

> [Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-kagan/without-history-we-are-the-prisoners-of-the-accident-of-where-and/)

[Donald Kagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-kagan/)

> [All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-kagan/all-comparisons-between-america-s-current-place-in-the-world-and/)

[Donald Kagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-kagan/)

> [War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided into multiple states](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-kagan/war-has-been-more-common-than-peace-and-extended-periods-of-peace/)

[Donald Kagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-kagan/)

> [Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-kagan/throughout-the-human-experience-people-have-read-history-because-they/)

[Donald Kagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-kagan/)

> [ I can see that you \[Bruce Cole\] are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-kagan/i-can-see-that-you-bruce-cole-are-a-true-historian-because-you-really/)

[Donald Kagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-kagan/)

> [History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-kagan/history-had-its-own-way-of-explaining-things-the-way-historians/)

[Donald Kagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-kagan/)

> [From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-kagan/from-the-time-i-was-a-little-boy-i-found-myself-reading-history-when/)

[Donald Kagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-kagan/)

> [We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-kagan/we-to-some-degree-are-like-what-we-are-because-we-inherited-certain/)

[Donald Kagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-kagan/)

> [You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-kagan/you-have-to-liberate-yourself-first-from-the-prejudices-of-the-world/)

[Donald Kagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-kagan/)

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