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History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.
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I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.
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It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.
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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.
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Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.
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I would reply that fiction is all the better the more it looks like truth, and gives the more pleasure the more probability and possibility there is about it.
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Born:
September 29, 1547
Died:
April 23, 1616
(aged 68)
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