Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization.

G.M. Trevelyan

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Topic

Curiosity Progress

Author

G.M. Trevelyan

Source

English Social History

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1942 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Historian Academic Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Trevelyan, George Macaulay. English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries Chaucer to Queen Victoria. Longmans, Green and Company, 1942, introduction.

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Harry Truman
Medium
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Genre
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Language
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Time
1947 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
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We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,
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Medium
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Language
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Time
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Citation

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As always, victory will have a hundred fathers, but defeat will never be acknowledged by anyone at all.

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Author

Galeazzo Ciano
Medium
Personal journal
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
Italian
Time
1942 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Ciano, Galeazzo. Diary entry. 9 Sept. 1942.