"De grandes capacités ne sont pas nécessaires pour un historien, car dans la composition historique, le jugement pour collecter et disposer les faits, ainsi que la diligence dans leur recherche, sont suffisants."
— Samuel Johnson
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You don't need to be super smart to be a good historian. What matters more is being good at collecting information and organizing it well. For example, think of a detective solving a case. The detective doesn’t have to be a genius; they just need to gather clues carefully and put them together in the right order to understand what happened. Similarly, a historian needs to find facts from the past and arrange them in a way that makes sense. This means you can become a good historian by working hard to find accurate details and using good judgment to present them clearly. It's more about effort and organization than natural talent.
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