Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
BARBARA TUCHMANThe 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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The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources.
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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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Books are the carriers of civilization… Books are humanity in print.
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Wisdom – meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.
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The Germans could not get over the perfidy of it. It was unbelievable that the English, having degenerated to the stage where suffragettes heckled the Prime Minister and defied the police, were going to fight.
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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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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Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.
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Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.
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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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[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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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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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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Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers – danger, death, and live ammunition.
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