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Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.
Samuel Eliot Morison
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Samuel Eliot Morison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1887
Born: July 9
Died: 1976
Died: May 15
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