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"The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies."
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"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie."
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"A lie never lives to be old."
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"When you crop the photo, you tell a lie."
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"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."
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"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."
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"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."
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"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."
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"Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him."
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"When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door."
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"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."
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"But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding."
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"The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines."
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"The ABC of our profession is to avoid these large abstract terms in order to try to discover behind them the only concrete realities, which are human beings."
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"History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical."
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"The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies."
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