Thoughts on Writing and Reading History

If you wish to consider this an addendum to, or commentary on, the ongoing Garland of Quotations project, I won’t stop you. I’m not your boss!

The truth is, I just can’t help myself. As Bernard Darwin wrote, “Quotation brings to many people one of the intensest joys of living.”

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Of the numbers who study, or at least who read history, how few derive any advantage from their labours!
•Maria Edgwood, ...