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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

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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Alternatives Elements Eras
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
Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
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Closing Doors Library
Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm.
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Accepting Calm Supplies
What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.
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Art Exercise Imagination
Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.
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Evoke Moments Speech
In the midst of events there is no perspective.
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Events Midst Perspective
The conduct of war was so much more interesting than its prevention.
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Interesting Prevention War
The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources.
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Challenges Money Waiting
The writer’s object is – or should be – to hold the reader’s attention.
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Attention Object Reader
Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous and ubiquitous whereas it is more likely to have been sporadic both in time and place.
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Disaster Facts Records
If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.
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Authority Common Should
Above all, discard the irrelevant.
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Discard Irrelevant Matters
When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.
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Commerce Massacres Zeal
Books are humanity in print.
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Book Humanity Print
The power to command frequently causes failure to think.
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Cause Command Thinking

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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