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A historian should "go on reading (...) until you can hear people talking. Then you will understand why things happened as they did."

G. M. Young

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George Malcolm Young (29 April 1882 – 18 November 1959) was an English historian, most famous for his long essay on Victorian times in England, Portrait of an Age (1936).

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