My Chosen Quote :
Carr E. H. (1961)
'The history we read [...] though based on facts, is, strictly speaking, not factual at all, but a series of accepted judgements.'
I've decided on this quote as I find it to be very interesting, I feel this quote has a lot of truth behind it, as there is no proof for somethings to be true. A good example of this is the myth of Napoleons height, allegedly he was meant to be a very short man, and this is taken to be true. Where as in fact he was considered to be tall in his time, being 5.5 foot tall. From this, you can see that the quote obviously touches on the truth as not everything you read or hear is always the truth.
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