"To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and…" — Barbara Tuchman
"To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse."
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68 Quotes by Barbara Tuchman
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- Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of…
- To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy…
- Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
- An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.
- I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end.
- Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.
- No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard,…
- When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no…
- Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
- Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose…
- The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory…
- Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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