Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.
BARBARA TUCHMAN
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If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?
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When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
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For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.
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When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down.
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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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The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they were supposed to be better or nearer to God than other men, their failings attracted more attention.
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Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm.
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For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.
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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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One constant among the elements of 1914—as of any era—was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not to act upon what they suspected to be true.
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