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David A. Bell
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“...Even in the most intimate forms of writing, people still followed established conventions and wrote what they felt was expected of them. They could lie to their friends and family, even to themselves.”
David A. Bell (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ideas do not have force outside specific social contexts. The same ideas may have enormous force in one context and look bizarre or repulsive in another.”
David A. Bell (born 1961) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: For a New Social History of the Enlightenment: Authors, Readers, and Commercial Capitalism", Cambridge University Press (31 March 2022)