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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.
Lytton Strachey
Art
First
Highest
Historian
Ignorance
Perfection
Requisite
Unattainable
Which
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