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More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.

Barbara Tuchman

Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Heels Jackals War
Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.
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Anxiety Christian Giving
If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.
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Courage Elude Mistake
Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
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Church Numbers Self
To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.
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Book Communication Quality
The writer’s object is – or should be – to hold the reader’s attention.
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Attention Object Reader
Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be.
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Country Men Opponent Smart
Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
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Closing Doors Library
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
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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Battle Military Mind
When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
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Heard Presumption Reason
[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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Century Emotion Pain
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 They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.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 TUCHMAN

Book Cooking Material Publish Two
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.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Dying Sunset World
The whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Country Money More Prevail Property
In the midst of events there is no perspective.
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Events Midst Perspective

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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