Past Remains Quotes by C. V. Wedgwood

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• An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything.
• Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair.
• History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can…
• History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression…
• For the company of the great is good company as Shakespeare understood it, as Plutarch understood it. The past remains the source…
• We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of…
• It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.
• Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the…
• General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we discourage it…
• For the truth is that men do not desire to be the Common Man any more than they are the Common Man.…
• The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his…
• Without passion there might be no errors, but without passion there would certainly be no history.

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