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> # Advice to Persons About to Write History - Don't.

[John Acton](https://quotesby.net/John-Acton)\#9

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## More from John Acton

1. > There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

[Permalink to quote \#8](https://quotesby.net/John-Acton/8/ "Permalink to quote 8")
2. > Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.

[Permalink to quote \#10](https://quotesby.net/John-Acton/10/ "Permalink to quote 10")
3. > I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they did not wrong. If there is any presumpti…

[Permalink to quote \#7](https://quotesby.net/John-Acton/7/ "Permalink to quote 7")

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