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"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius." - Forster, Edward M.
<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19081/">The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2571/">Forster, Edward M.</a> on <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/history_and_historians/">History and Historians</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a>
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