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- Author's profession: President
- Nationality: american
- Born: April 13, 1743
- Died: July 4, 1826
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I taught you that there is never any end to that question, because, as I once defined it for you (yes, I confess a weakness for improvised definitions), history is that impossible thing: the attempt to give an account with incomplete knowledge, of actions themselves undertaken with incomplete knowledge.
Graham Swift