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Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible.

Barbara Tuchman

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 They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.
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Book Cooking Material Publish Two
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
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History Sea War
The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources.
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Challenges Money Waiting
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.
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Book Civilization Literature History
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
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Comfort Military Mind
satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.
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Exaggeration Reality Satire
Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.
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Heels Jackals War
The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire in any case fading.
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Desire Women Worry
The power to command frequently causes failure to think.
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Cause Command Thinking
No female iniquity was more severely condemned than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.
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Eyebrows Female Habit
When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down.
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Breaking Down Gaps Real
Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.
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Argument Desire Found
Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible.
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Book Civilization Development Impossible
I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry.
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Artist Book Fiction Reason
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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Husband Men Stories
Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.
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Evoke Moments Speech

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