To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
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The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.
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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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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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Books are humanity in print.
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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
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Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
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History is the unfolding of miscalculation.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
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