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Harold Acton Quotes

Type:
Historian Quotes
Category:
English Historian Quotes
Date of Birth:
July 5, 1904
Year of Death:
1994
Nationality:
English
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John Acton

 
So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.
Harold Acton

The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.
Harold Acton


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