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Honor wears different coats to different eyes.

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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 They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.
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Woman was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.
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satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.
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Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
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Governments do not like to face radical remedies it is easier to let politics predominate.
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The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.
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Books are humanity in print.
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In April 1917 the illusion of isolation was destroyed, America came to the end of innocence, and of the exuberant freedom of bachelor independence. That the responsibilities of world power have not made us happier is no surprise. To help ourselves manage them, we have replaced the illusion of isolation with a new illusion of omnipotence.
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If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.
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To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.
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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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