I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies …

George Orwell
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I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written. ✨ Looking Back on the SpanishWar sec. 4 (1942)
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