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Book Quotes by Barbara Tuchman
- To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
- To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the…
- Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development…
- Books are the carriers of civilization... .....Books are humanity in print.
- Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
- Books are humanity in print.
- Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.
- After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I…
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