Quotes by John Lothrop Motley

The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.

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The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.

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The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.

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In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.

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In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar,...

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History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.

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Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.

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For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are...

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Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.

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A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the...

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A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

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A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for...

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