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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 56632 |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Lytton Strachey (1880–1932), British biographer, historian. Eminent Victorians, preface (1918). |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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