Quotes by Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

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A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for t — Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradi — Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Between the happening of a historical process and its recognition by rulers, a lag stretches, full of pitfalls. — Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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 — Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record. — Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century