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

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A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

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

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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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Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: April 15th, 1814

Died: May 29th, 1877

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