History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men. ✨ …

Virginia Woolf
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History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2007). Selected Works of Virginia Woolf, p.630, Wordsworth Editions
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History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2007). Selected Works of Virginia Woolf, p.630, Wordsworth Editions

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