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“Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (15521618)
“So often has my judgment deceived me in my life, that I always suspect it, right or wrong,at least I am seldom hot upon cold subjects. For all this, I reverence truth as much as any body; and ... if a man will but take me by the hand, and go quietly and search for it ... Ill go to the worlds end with him:MBut I hate disputes.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
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