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More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.

Barbara Tuchman

The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.
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History People Poetry
Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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Different Eye Honor
Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.
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Power Strong Thinking
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
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
Books are humanity in print.
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Book Humanity Print
Confronted by menace, or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, define it.
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Confronted Government Menace Smash
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
In the search for meaning we must not forget that the gods (or God, for that matter) are a concept of the human mind; they are the creatures of man, not vice versa. They are needed and invented to give meaning and purpose to the struggle that is life on Earth.
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Giving Men Struggle
Of all the ills that our poor … society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so much of our uneasiness and confusion derive, is the absence of standards.
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Absence Confusion Heirs
Books are the carriers of civilization… Books are humanity in print.
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Book Civilization Humanity
Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.
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Female Males Sin
If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?
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Earth Ideas Medieval
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
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Comfort Military Mind
The writer’s object is – or should be – to hold the reader’s attention.
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Attention Object Reader
Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.
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Dangerous Seductive Used

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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