Beth UnderdownI will lay it out in black and white, and my tale will contain more truth than the great dead histories on my father's bookshelves. For they say what happened, but not what it was like. They say what happened, but they do not say why.
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The quote above is from Charles Dickens who said “I will lay it out in black and white, and my tale will contain more truth than the great dead histories on my father’s bookshelves. For they say what happened, but not what it was like. They say what happened, but they do not say why.” This is because the history we read in history books is not always told with honesty and truth. The history that we read and hear about only tells you what happened and does not tell you why or how it happened to happen that way.
The fact is that history books are written by people who wrote their own history so there may be some things left out of their stories. The reason why we can never get a true understanding of the past is because there were no audio or video recordings back then so there will always be something missing.
Source: The Witchfinders Sister
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