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Barbara Tuchman Quotes

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

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.Get Image

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.Get Image

History is the unfolding of miscalculation.Get Image

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

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