Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
From Barbara Tuchman
Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
Books are humanity in print.
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.
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