The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.

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For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.

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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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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.

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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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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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