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The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.

Barbara Tuchman

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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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Above all, discard the irrelevant.
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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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