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Century Quotes by Barbara Tuchman
- To ensure that no one gained an advantage over anyone else, commercial law [in the 14th century] prohibited innovation in tools or techniques, underselling below…
- The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they were…
- No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the…
- The Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and art…
- That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest…
- While husbands and lovers in the stories [of the 14th century] are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant,…
- The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and…
- Woman [in the 14th century] was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.
- No female iniquity was more severely condemned [in the 14th century] than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.
- For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.
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