Destroying Documents

Famous quotes containing the words destroying and/or documents:

“I hereby swear that to uphold your house
I would lay my bones in quick destroying lime”
—Elinor Wylie (1885–1928)

“Our medieval historians who prefer to rely as much as possible on official documents because the chronicles are unreliable, fall thereby into an occasionally dangerous error. The documents tell us little about the difference in tone which separates us from those times; they let us forget the fervent pathos of medieval life.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)