The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian-ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
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Original Citation
Strachey, Lytton. Eminent Vicorians. Chatto & Windus, 1918, preface.
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Current Citation
Strachey, Lytton. Eminent Vicorians. Penguin Classics, 1990, preface.
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