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A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day.Barbara W. Tuchman
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Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.Barbara W. Tuchman
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Between the happening of a historical process and its recognition by rulers, a lag stretches, full of pitfalls.Barbara W. Tuchman
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An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in the aftermath of another vast calamity in 1914-18, disillusion is deep and moves on to self-doubt and self-disgust.Barbara W. Tuchman
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In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.Barbara W. Tuchman