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We make a mistake to condescend to the past as if it were preparatory to our own time.

E. L. Doctorow
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E. L. Doctorow (1994). “Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution: Selected Essays, 1977-1992”, Perennial
We make a mistake to condescend to the past as if it were preparatory to our own time.