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best historical writing requires not only a precise knowledge of the incidents or facts that laborious research has collected, but the capacity to weave the matter so as to form a lasting fabric which discloses character and motive.
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― Small Favor
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― The Kite Runner
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― Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish
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