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Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always colored by their political prejudices, or distorted to establish some theory . . .

Source: The Confessions of an Elderly Lady, 1838.
-- Lady Marguerite Blessington, (Sep 1 1789-1849), English socialite, writer; She is chiefly remembered for her Conversations of Lord Byron and for the intellectual circle which she headed in London.

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