You cannot, you must not, judge the past by the present; you must try to see it in its own terms and values, if you are to have any inkling of it. Yo… - George MacDonald Fraser

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You cannot, you must not, judge the past by the present; you must try to see it in its own terms and values, if you are to have any inkling of it. You may not like what you see, but do not on that account fall into the error of trying to adjust it to suit your own vision of what it ought to have been.