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If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting and, like all works of art, it fails of the highest truth unless imagination and ideas are mixed with the paints.
Allan Nevins
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Allan Nevins
Age: 80 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 20
Died: 1971
Died: March 5
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