"This day I finished Thucydides, after reading him with inexpressible interest and admiration. He is the greatest historian that ever lived."
— Thucydides

January 1, 1970

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Thomas Babington Macaulay, note (27 February 1835), quoted in George Otto Trevelyan, The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, Vol. I (1876), p. 467