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> # Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor pardoned - the habit of making history into the proof of their histories.

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## More from John Acton

1. > Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.

[Permalink to quote \#20](https://quotesby.net/John-Acton/20/ "Permalink to quote 20")
2. > Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith. But i…

[Permalink to quote \#22](https://quotesby.net/John-Acton/22/ "Permalink to quote 22")
3. > The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carr…

[Permalink to quote \#19](https://quotesby.net/John-Acton/19/ "Permalink to quote 19")

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