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Quotes by Historian
"The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters."
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"His one essay in love had exhausted his powers in that direction."
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"Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to "receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land."
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"A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vision of a life started anew."
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"He had the ruthlessness of uninterrupted success."
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"Use your profession to fund your passion."
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"Every woman is different in her own special way."
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"You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are."
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"A good woman keeps her mind right and her body tight."
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"There is enough dough in the world to make bread for us all to eat together."
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"My heart does not desire what my eyes does not admire."
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"Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age."
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"Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print."
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"Connection" was the cement of the governing class."
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"A historian cannot pick and choose his facts, he must deal with all the evidence."
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"The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman."
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