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John Lothrop Motley Quotes
Page 2 of 2John Lothrop Motley
April 15, 1814 - May 29, 1877
Nationality: American
Category: Historian
Subcategory: American Historian
|  The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs. | | The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands. | | Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries. | | In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves. | | A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold. |
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