Famous quote by Barbara Tuchman

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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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This quote is written / told by Barbara Tuchman between January 30, 1912 and February 6, 1989. He/she was a famous Historian from USA. The author also have 15 other quotes.

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"It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?"

"Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime"

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested"

"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own"

"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice"

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"The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down"

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between"

"Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion"

"No two persons ever read the same book"

"Women, can't live with them, can't live without them"