13.0545 quotation from Macaulay

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             Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 21:36:25 +0100
             From: Haradda@aol.com
             Subject: Re: 13.0539 divers queries & requests

    In a message dated 4/13/2000 8:30:38 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
    willard@lists.village.virginia.edu writes:

    <<
       "The 19th-century historian Macaulay maintained that the only true
       history of a country is the newspapers".
    >>

    I believe that the quote it is from Macaulay's History of England



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