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Anyone, however, who has had dealings with dates knows that they are worse than elusive, they are perverse. Events do not happen at the right time, nor in their proper sequence. That sense of harmony with place and

Anyone, however, who has had dealings with dates knows that they are worse than elusive, they are perverse. Events do not happen at the right time, nor in their proper sequence. That sense of harmony with place and season which is so strong in the historian--if he be a readable historian--is lamentably lacking in history, which takes no pains to verify his most convincing statements.

Agnes Repplier
Strong, Pain, History
Agnes Repplier (1932). “To Think of Tea!”

If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

Agnes Repplier
History, Fluid, Ifs
Agnes Repplier (1920). “Points of Friction”

The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.

Agnes Repplier
Thinking, History, Study
Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”

History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.

Agnes Repplier
History, May, Facts

History is not written in the interests of morality.

Agnes Repplier
History, Morality, Interest

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