Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

-- Edmond de Goncourt 龚古尔

历史学家讲述过去的故事，小说家讲述现在的故事。

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Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

评论家通常都是诗人，历史学家，传记作家，如果可能的话。他们在一件事或另一件事上试过他们的才能，但都失败了;因此他们变成了批评家。

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Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

不要玩弄悖论。你为了烧灼别人而使用的那种腐蚀性物质，可能会烧灼到你自己的手指，使它们在质量上死去。

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Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.

也许新社会历史学家最重要的一课是，历史属于那些关于谁或谁的文件幸存下来的人。

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