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— Barbara Tuchman"Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself."
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The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.
— Barbara Tuchman
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