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Barbara Tuchman

"Duty was not untinged by ambition."

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"My lord father used to say a man should never draw his sword unless he means to use it."

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"Your nation needs you. Your world needs you. So, use your education to become endowed with muscles of iron and nerves of steel."

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"Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy."

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"Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical."

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"To care is our endless sense if duty."

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"Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me."

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"It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out."

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"The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them."

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"I've never cheated on a lover. I'm faithful, always. But the war comes before anyone's feelings. Every time.Wow. Battle before love. Without a doubt, he was the most unromantic male she'd ever met. Even more so than her great-grandfather, who had laughingly burned her great-grandmother to death after she'd given birth to Gwen's grandmother."

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"He was always the bridge, between men as well as between ideas."
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"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."
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"His one essay in love had exhausted his powers in that direction."
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"In writing I am seduced by the sound of words and by the interaction of their sound and sense."
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"Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government."
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"Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age."
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"The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke."
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