The history of the Franks becomes, there... by John Lothrop Motley | We Heart Quotes

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The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.

- John Lothrop Motley

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People

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

- John Lothrop Motley

Life Will

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

- John Lothrop Motley

Old

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

- John Lothrop Motley

Woman

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

- John Lothrop Motley

Improvement

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

- John Lothrop Motley

Civilization Mind

A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.

- John Lothrop Motley

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