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

Barbara Tuchman

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The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.
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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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Governments do not like to face radical remedies it is easier to let politics predominate.
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Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.
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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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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard
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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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Human behavior is timeless.
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Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
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Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
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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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Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.
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Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.
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Books are humanity in print.
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Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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