Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
Barbara W. Tuchman
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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Books are humanity in print.
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Books are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip and Germans, no less than other peoples, prepare for the last war.
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A relentless talent for tactlessness.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
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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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Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be.
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Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.
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An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in the aftermath of another vast calamity in 1914-18, disillusion is deep and moves on to self-doubt and self-disgust.
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Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.
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