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You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.
Leopold von Ranke
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Leopold von Ranke
Age: 90 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 21
Died: 1886
Died: May 23
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