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Barbara Tuchman Quotes: Woman was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.
         

Woman was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.


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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.



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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 his sexual desire in any case fading.



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To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.



More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.



Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.



The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.



What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.



Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.

Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.



One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.



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.

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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