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Quote by Allen Nevins
If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and unin

If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of art, it fails of the highest truth unless imagination and ideas are mixed with the paints. – Allen Nevins

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