American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; … - A. J. P. Taylor

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Take my will, and make it Thine, It shall be no longer mine; Take my heart, it is Thine own; It shall be Thy royal throne.

A. J. P. Taylor

American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.

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I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?

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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

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