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History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.

Margaret MacMillan
Feel Good, Generations, Complicated
Margaret MacMillan (2010). “The Uses and Abuses of History”, p.127, Profile Books
History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.