To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.
BARBARA TUCHMANThe Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and art to which all had some access and which many helped to create.
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bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever.
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Historians who stuff in every item of research they have found, every shoelace and telephone call of a biographical subject, are not doing the hard work of selecting and shaping a readable story.
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When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.
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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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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.
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Human behavior is timeless.
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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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If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.
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Books are the carriers of civilization… Books are humanity in print.
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In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.
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We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic.
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Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.
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I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.
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The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.
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