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Barbara Tuchman Quotes
![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 Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/79/78522/78522.webp "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 Picture Quote #1")
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![Woman [in the 14th century] was the church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the devil's decoy Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/79/78525/78525.webp "Woman [in the 14th century] was the church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the devil's decoy Picture Quote #1")
![No female iniquity was more severely condemned [in the 14th century] than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/79/78528/78528.webp "No female iniquity was more severely condemned [in the 14th century] than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead Picture Quote #1")
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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 (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
In the midst of events there is no perspective (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
Books are humanity in print (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
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 (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
Honor wears different coats to different eyes (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
War is the unfolding of miscalculations (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
More than a code of manners in war and love, chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
Woman [in the 14th century] was the church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the devil's decoy (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
No female iniquity was more severely condemned [in the 14th century] than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
Books are... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
One constant among the elements of 1914 - as of any era - was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not to act upon what they suspected to be true (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
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