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“To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.”
 
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Barbara Tuchman
 
Name:   Barbara Tuchman
 
Nationality:   American
 
Date of Birth:   Jan 30, 1912
 
Date of Death:   Feb 6,  1989
 
Profession:   Historian
 
 
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Books are humanity in print.
 
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Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
 
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Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
 
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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
 
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Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
 
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