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It is hard to think away out of our heads a history which has long…
Quote byFrederic William Maitland · 1850–1906
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Introduction to Records of the Parliament Holden at Westminster on the Twenty-Eighth Day of February, in the Thirty-Third Year of the Reign of King Edward the First (A.D. 1305), ed. Frederic William Maitland (1893), p. lxxxiii.
English (original)
It is hard to think away out of our heads a history which has long lain in a remote past but which once lay in the future.
— Frederic William Maitland
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