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"Now every educationist knows well, and an historian perhaps better than most, that there can be no greater danger in teaching than to let words usurp the place of facts. That mistake is all the more fatal when one remembers that the young are temperamentally only too prone to become intoxicated by words, and to give them the validity of things."
— Aug 05, 2026 01:06PM
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"An historian is not often bored. He always has the resources of memory, observation, and writing to keep him busy. But the feeling that one is serving no useful purpose in a nation at war is intolerable."
— Aug 05, 2026 07:51AM
Kowsar Bagheri
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"I have done my best to bring to the tragic events in which I played a modest part the same habits of criticism, of observation, and, I trust, of integrity, which were bred in me by the exigencies of my work as an historian."
— Aug 01, 2026 12:43PM