That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis.
BARBARA TUCHMANNo more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
More Barbara Tuchman Quotes
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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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I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.
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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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satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.
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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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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard
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When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
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Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
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Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.
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Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
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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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Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.
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I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end.
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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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