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The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.

Geoffrey Elton

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Geoffrey Elton
Age: 73 †
Born: 1921
Born: August 17
Died: 1994
Died: December 3
Historian
Historian Of The Modern Age
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Gottfried Rudolph Otto Ehrenberg
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