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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. Strachey, Lytton

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Giles Lytton Strachey (March 1, 1880 January 21, 1932) was a British writer and critic. He is best known for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version.

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