• What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  American historian 1912-1989
  

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What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement. by : Barbara W. Tuchman

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