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A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
John Lothrop Motley / Historian
Legal
Christian
Good Christian
Lawyer
Bad
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When did one man ever civilize a people?
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Men
One Man
People
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Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.
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Confidence
Smile
Confidence And Strength
Wealth
Brings
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History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.
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Barriers
Paper
Shows
Feeble
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A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.
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Animal
Terrible
Unbridled Passion
Indeed
Unbridled
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Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty.
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Government
Blood
Self
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Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.
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Enthusiasm
Supply
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A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice.
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Increase
Practice
Talent
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The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.
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Forests
Netherlands
Territory
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A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.
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Civilization
Mind
Improvised
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The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.
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Crusades
Improvement
Made
Condition
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The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.
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Band
Gigantic
Roman
Soldiers
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Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger.
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Holland
Stronger
Daily
Liberties
Thus
Waxed
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The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.
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Iron
Sword
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Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.
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Dispense
Luxuries
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Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.
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Funny
Giving
Luxury
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In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.
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Century
Faded
Form
Forms
Roman
Tenth
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The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.
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Netherlands
Therefore
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Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.
John Lothrop Motley / Historian
Broken
Broken Heart
Country
Patches
Sovereignty
Thus
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With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people.
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Assembly
Sovereignty
Germans
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The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.
John Lothrop Motley / Historian
Empires
Fifth
Liberty
Splendid
Charles
Empire
Grave
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The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
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Glitter
Persons
Scared
Servitude
Weak
Ferocious
Timid
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The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.
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Dutch
Modern Times
Republic
Rise
Leading
Regarded
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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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Culture
Empires
Exhausted
Long
Lying
Soil
Period
Fallow
Lie
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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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Developing
Force
Gold
Thirds
Slowly
Potent
Third
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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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Nobility
Order
People
Priesthood
Two
Caesar
Orders
Slaves
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For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.
John Lothrop Motley / Historian
Careers
Century
Nations
Rome
Outward
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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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Men
Class
England And America
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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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Deeds
Pyramids
Stones
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Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome.
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Fall
First Time
Netherlands
Rome
Slavery
United
Since
Again
Crown
Imperial
Thus
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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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Men
Atheist
Wall
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