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I am a very simple person. In spite of all that has happened to me, I have tried to remain the simple person I started out.
The effort only shifted me from the frying-pan into the fire.
In history, nothing fabulous can be agreeable.
I say, therefore, that he who would write history well must be possessed of these two principal qualifications, a fine understanding and a good style: one is the gift of nature, and cannot be taught; the other may be acquired by frequent exercise, perpetual labour and an emulation of the ancients.