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Facts are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract truth which interpenetrates them, and lies latent among them, like gold in the ore, that the mass derives its whole value: and the precious particles are generally combined with the baser in such a manner that the separation is a task of the utmost difficulty.

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "History." Edinburgh Review, May 1828.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "History." Essays: First Series. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "History (1841)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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