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Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.

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In an imperfect world, it seems to me that, of all human institutions, the university of Oxford, and in it the college of All Souls, come nearest to perfection.

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This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts.

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A. L. Rowse

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Born: December 4, 1903
Died: October 3, 1997 (aged 93)
Bio: Alfred Leslie Rowse FRHistS, known publicly as A. L. Rowse but to friends and family as Leslie, was a British author and historian from Cornwall, England, UK.
Known for:
  1. A Cornish Childhood (1942)
  2. Homosexuals in history (1977)
  3. Historians I have known (1995)
  4. The England of Elizabeth (1950)
  5. The use of history (1946)

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