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Famous Quotes
Quotes by Barbara Tuchman
- Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
- No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
- The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
- To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
- War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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