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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

Human behavior is timeless.
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Behavior Human Timeless
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
No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British Expeditionary Force into the maelstrom of World War I in Europe.
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Europe War World
When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
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Heard Presumption Reason
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
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Comfort Military Mind
An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one’s own prose.
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Essentials Sound Writing
Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible.
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Book Civilization Development Impossible
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.
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Book Civilization Literature History
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
I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.
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Always Condition Writer Writing
Completeness is rare in history.
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Completeness History Rare
If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.
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Courage Elude Mistake
The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they were supposed to be better or nearer to God than other men, their failings attracted more attention.
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Attention Men Untrustworthy
Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.
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Female Males Sin
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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Cards House Leaving
No nation in the world has so many drastic problems squeezed into so small a space, under such urgent pressure of time and heavy burden of history, as Israel.
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Country Small Space Urgent World

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