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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

~Barbara Tuchman

Topics: Books Civilization Crippled Dumb History Literature Science Silent Speculation Standstill Thought Without

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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.

~Barbara Tuchman

Topics: Being Fell Forest Friend Heard None Old Old Friend Other Our Past Than Tree Which Without

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Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.

~Barbara Tuchman

Topics: Closed Door Library Me More Nothing Than

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Honor wears different coats to different eyes.

~Barbara Tuchman

Topics: Coats Different Eyes Honor Wears

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Books are humanity in print.

~Barbara Tuchman

Topics: Books Humanity In Print Print

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For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.

~Barbara Tuchman

Topics: Been Brought Card Catalog Companion House Leave Leaving Life Like Me Up Working Working Life

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Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

~Barbara Tuchman

Topics: Comforts Dead General Great Maxim Military Mind Nothing

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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.

~Barbara Tuchman

Topics: Base Discretion Fleet Glory Headed Much North Rendezvous Sailed Sea Some War

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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

~Barbara Tuchman

Topics: Even Food Historian Libraries Muse Shelter

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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

~Barbara Tuchman

Topics: Unfolding War

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: January 30th, 1912

Died: February 6th, 1989

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