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• The reader will often reject, when it is explained and argued for, what he would swallow whole if it were stated baldly and unadorned.
  
  
• "History is an art, like the other sciences." --Veronica Wedgwood
  
  
• The snob is a penitent, who flogs himself for what he likes with what he thinks he ought to.
  
  
• Write in the margin as you would speak to the author.
  
  
• Making a great point of your politics is like painting your face for the football game.
  
  
• Only bad writers are their own best readers.