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Historian · English · 1821–1862
English historian (1821–1862)
“Society prepares the crime the criminal commits it.”
“Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it.”
“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
“You can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next, by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest, by their preference for the dis...”