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Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm.
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Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.
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The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.
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No female iniquity was more severely condemned than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.
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In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along the way and it is a useful nostrum against despair.
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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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If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.
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When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
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Human behavior is timeless.
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I ask myself, have nations ever declined from a loss of moral sense rather than from physical reasons or the pressure of barbarians? I think that they have.
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satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.
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Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
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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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The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire in any case fading.
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To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.
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The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.
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Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.
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To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.
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