by Salvador de Madariaga
'Of all the labels that have been, and are, attached to me, the one to which I feel least entitled is that of historian; though I also feel that it is perhaps to the case of the historian that my favourite dictum applies most aptly: he who is nothing but a historian is not even a historian. History, after all, is a tale of human affairs and no one who has not had a taste of human affairs can tell the true story which they both reveal and conceal. It was, then, just as well that I learned history in life before I learned it in books ...'
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