The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves. (John Dos Passos)

The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves.

John Dos Passos

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