We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.
Talent means energy and persistence and nothing more!
No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers.
I have gazed on the face of Agamemnon.