Quotes from the World for Wednesday 04/20/V3.1

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 They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.

Barbara Tuchman
Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989), U.S. historian. “The Houses of Research,” Practising History (1981).