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Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

Barbara Tuchman

To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.
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Forgiven Position Responsible
The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources.
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Challenges Money Waiting
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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Folly Men Power
They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.
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Banker Companion Erect Lighthouse Magician Sea Teacher
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.
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Fasting Purpose Victory
Woman was the Church’s rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil’s decoy.
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Church Devil Women
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
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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Knighthood Love War
Above all, discard the irrelevant.
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Discard Irrelevant Matters
In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
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Historical History Peace
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
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Revolution Successful Tyrants
To explain strange and irregular phenomena of nature, haphazard events and, above all, irrational human conduct. They exist to bear the burden of all things that cannot be comprehended except by supernatural intervention or design.
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Conduct Human Irrational Phenomena Strange
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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Hard Stories Telephone Work
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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Book Science Sea Teacher
Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.
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Art Christianity Ideas
The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.
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Communism Communist Myth

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