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Quote #1:   "History is the unfolding of miscalculation."
Quote #2:   "To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse."
Quote #3:   "Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."
Quote #4:   "Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip."
Quote #5:   "Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed."