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Quotation by Barbara Tuchman
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.
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Barbara Tuchman
Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989), U.S. historian. "The Houses of Research," Practising History (1981).
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