The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.Barbara Tuchman
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Books are humanity in print.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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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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Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
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Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
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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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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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Base,
Discretion,
Fleet,
Glory,
Headed,
Much,
North,
Rendezvous,
Sailed,
Sea,
Some,
War
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