If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
BARBARA TUCHMAN
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To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the sake of reward in the next.
More Barbara Tuchman Quotes
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis.
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While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous, lecherous, shameless, although not necessarily all of these at once.
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Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.
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Woman was the Church’s rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil’s decoy.
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Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
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Above all, discard the irrelevant.
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The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history’s clock it was sunset, and the sun of the old world was setting in a dying blaze of splendor never to be seen again.
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Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.
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Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
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The writer’s object is – or should be – to hold the reader’s attention.
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The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along the way and it is a useful nostrum against despair.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
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