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John Seeley - The Expansion of England (1883)

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We [the English] seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

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Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.

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Born: September 10, 1834
Died: January 13, 1895 (aged 60)
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