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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 They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.

Barbara Tuchman

Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.
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Satisfying Sentences Writing
One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.
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Conducting Finished Research
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
Wisdom – meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.
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Appreciation Common Sense Wisdom
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
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
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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Knighthood Love War
Human behavior is timeless.
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Behavior Human Timeless
The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.
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Communism Communist Myth
I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.
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Always Condition Writer Writing
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
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Revolution Successful Tyrants
I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Pages Want Writing
If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Courage Elude Mistake
Business offers a kind of power, but only to the very successful at the top, and without the dominion and titles and red carpets and motorcycle escorts of public office.
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Dominion Kind Motorcycle Power Success
Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.
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Female Males Sin
Books are the carriers of civilization… Books are humanity in print.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Book Civilization Humanity

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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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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