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Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.
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Disease Views Years
Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.
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Easier Faces Government
Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers – danger, death, and live ammunition.
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Danger Ingredients Missing
Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others – only to lose it over themselves.
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Folly Men Power
Books are humanity in print.
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Book Humanity Print
More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.
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Knighthood Love War
For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.
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Cards House Leaving
Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.
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Age Bad Time Needs
The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.
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Poison Running War
Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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Different Eye Honor
The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources.
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Challenges Money Waiting
When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.
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Commerce Massacres Zeal
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
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Decision Faces Government
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Pages Want Writing
No nation in the world has so many drastic problems squeezed into so small a space, under such urgent pressure of time and heavy burden of history, as Israel.
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Country Small Space Urgent World
An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one’s own prose.
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Essentials Sound Writing

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