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William the Silent: William of Nassau, Prince of Orange 1533-1584 by C.V. Wedgwood
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“History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only.”
― C.V. Wedgwood, William the Silent: William of Nassau, Prince of Orange 1533-1584

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