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Arnold Toynbee - Party historians go to the past for...
Party historians go to the past for party purposes; they seek to read into the past the controversies of the present. (Arnold Toynbee)

Party historians go to the past for party purposes; they seek to read into the past the controversies of the present.

Arnold Toynbee

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