Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.
Samuel Eliot Morison Quotes
Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.
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