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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 5156 |
| QUOTATION: | The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Walter Bagehot (1826–1877), British economist, critic. Physics and Politics, ch. 2, sect. 2 (1872). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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