The evidence of history is against you. The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of — Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Mr. Quin
The evidence of history is against you. The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of — Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Mr. Quin
The evidence of history is against you. The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of — Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Mr. Quin
The evidence of history is against you. The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of — Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Mr. Quin
The evidence of history is against you. The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of — Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Mr. Quin
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The evidence of history is against you. The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation. It is a question of getting the true perspective, of seeing things in proportion.

— Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Mr. Quin
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