. . . for historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction to the present, and monitor to the future.
—Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605, trans. C. Jarvis 1742)
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