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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

Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Art Christianity Ideas
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
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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Mean Power Secret
Belgium, where there occurred one of the rare appearances of the hero in history, was lifted above herself by the uncomplicated conscience of her King and, faced with the choice to acquiesce or resist, took less than three hours to make her decision, knowing it might be mortal.
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Hero Kings Knowing
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
If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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Degrees Taken Writing
The whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.
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Country Money More Prevail Property
Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs.
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Belief Friendship Roots
Above all, discard the irrelevant.
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Discard Irrelevant Matters
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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Fighting History Police
The Hundred Years’ War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.
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Unity War Years
We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic.
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Moral Reluctance Seems
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
Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.
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Anxiety Christian Giving
To put away one’s own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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Book Order Original Thought
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous, lecherous, shameless, although not necessarily all of these at once.
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Husband Men Stories

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