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Lawrence Stone
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“Like most people, I would imagine, I was eventually taught to love scholarship by a handful of gifted teachers.”
Lawrence Stone (1919–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In Britain, the post-war period was a time of boundless optimism and confidence-a fact which is hard to remember, much less to comprehend, in these depressed and disillusioned post-imperial times, when England has sunk to the level of a third-rate power in almost all fields of endeavor except those of the pure intellect.”
Lawrence Stone (1919–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“After all, there are no generalizations, in history or any other discipline, which do not need more qualification.”
Lawrence Stone (1919–1999) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Newsletter American Council of Learned Societies. Winter-Spring 1985.