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But he had been born, and had grown up, between the lids of history, and for all his learning and travel he never got very far outside them.
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gutenberg.orgHenry Watterson: “But he had been born, and had grown up, between the lids of history, and for all his learning and travel he never got…”
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Watterson comments on the limitations of Henry Adams despite his extensive education and travel.
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