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John Lothrop Motley

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    A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

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    A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice.

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

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    A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

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

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

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    History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.

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

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

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    Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty.

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    Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

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

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

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    The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only matter in spontaneous motion; and, most grievous word of all, that what men call their souls die with the death of the body, as music dies when the strings are broken.

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    The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

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    Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.

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    To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.

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    Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.