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Lytton Strachey Quotes
	Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. Lytton Strachey Vote on this Quote: Bad <---> Good
	Type: Critic Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes Date of Birth: March 1, 1880 Date of Death: January 21, 1932 Nationality: English Amazon: Lytton Strachey on Amazon	Related Authors: Aleister Crowley Charles Lamb Kenneth Tynan William Hazlitt Walter Pater John Churton Collins Lytton Strachey Clive Bell
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Quote Keywords: Art, Clarifies, First, Highest, Historian, Ignorance, Perfection, Requisite, Selects, Unattainable, Which	Dictionary Links: Art, First, Historian, Ignorance, Perfection, Requisite, Which

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