Perhaps the best test of a man’s intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.
—Lytton Strachey
Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian—ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
—Lytton Strachey
Topics: Historians, History
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