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The Hundred Years’ War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.

Barbara Tuchman

in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight
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Hindsight Midst War
Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.
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Art Christianity Ideas
Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible.
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Book Civilization Development Impossible
The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.
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Poison Running War
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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History Past Tree
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
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Decision Faces Government
The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.
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History People Poetry
In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
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Historical History Peace
The better part of valor is to spend it learning to live with differences, however hostile, unless and until we can find another planet.
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Conflict Differences Planets
Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.
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Disease Views Years
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 They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.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
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.
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Belief Century Church
The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.
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Development Facts Tragedy
Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.
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Female Males Sin
Books are humanity in print.
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Book Humanity Print
Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced
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Faculty Learning Teaching

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