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"Shall we their fond pageant see?Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
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"It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery."
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"We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense."
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"The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity."
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"I'm the king of bad ideas."
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"A law can be both economic folly and constitutional."
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"That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones."
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"If he had known unstructured space is a delugeand stocked his log house-boat with all the animals even the wolves, he might have floated. But obstinate hestated, The land is solid and stamped, watching his foot sink down through the stone up to his knee. From "Progressive insanities of a pioneer."
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"One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs."
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"The best plan is to profit by the folly of others."
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Explore more quotes by Barbara Tuchman
"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."
History
"A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done."
Governance
"In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record."
Contentment
"No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British Expeditionary Force into the maelstrom of World War I in Europe."
Bravery
"Humanizing war?! You may as well talk of humanizing Hell. Sir John Fisher."
War
"Honor wears different coats to different eyes."
Honor
"Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions."
Politics
"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."
Government
"Enormity of the stakes became the new self-hypnosis."
Motivation
"He believed interim reforms were necessary in order to fix the worker for his destiny."
Reform
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