My Lot as a Historian
"Pero uno es escribir como poeta y otro como historiador: el poeta puede contar o cantar las cosas, no como fueron, sino como debian ser; y el historiador las de escribir, no como debian de ser, sino como fueron, sin anadir ni quitar a la verdad cosa alguna.""But it is one thing to write like a poet, and another like an historian: the poet may say or sing things, not as they were, but as they ought to have been; and the historian must write things, not as they ought to be, but as they have been, without adding or taking away aught from the truth."
(Don Quixote de la Mancha , Book Two, Chapter Three)
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