Frederic G. Kenyon (1863–1952) British palaeographer and biblical and classical scholar
Source: The Story Of The Bible, Chapter III, How The Books Of The New Testament Were Written, p. 21
“I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.”
Said to Molotov in 1943, as quoted in Felix Chuev's 140 Conversations with Molotov Moscow, 1991.
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