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Book: The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
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  1. Barbara W. Tuchman _ The Proud Tower: A Portrait of

    They governed from duty, heritage and habit-and, as they saw it, from right.
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    Humanizing war?! You may as well talk of humanizing Hell. Sir John Fisher
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    He seemed less in need of a secretary than of someone to listen to him.
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    I also know that what follows is far from the whole picture. It is not false modesty which prompts me to say so but simply an acute awareness of what I have not included. The faces and voices of all that I have left out crowd around me as I reach the end.
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    Society's revenge matched its fright.
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    He was always the bridge, between men as well as between ideas.
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    All this visible greatness was really one with Nineveh and Tyre.
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    Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors.
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    When meeting criticism, he would regard it not as something to resent but as a thing to be examined, like an interesting beetle. "That's a curious view, not uninteresting.
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    He had been present in their minds not as a man but as an idea.
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    A minister's {cabinet member's} function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done.
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    The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn't responsible TO them. He was responsible FOR them. He was responsible for their care.
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