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Barbara Tuchman

"The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard."

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"The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard."

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"Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends."

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"Piper: it looks like we have hole. Percy: Yeah we've got a dam hole! (LOL-ing) Piper: What! Percy: Inside joke. (still LOL-ing) Piper: Whatever."

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"I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness."

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"I use my friends rather as giglamps : There's another field I see: by your light. Over there's a hill. I widen my landscape."

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"Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title."

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"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."

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"Never injure a friend, even in jest."

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