"Give us the luxuries of life, and we……" — John Lothrop Motley
"Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities."
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John Lothrop Motley
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29 Quotes by John Lothrop Motley
John Lothrop Motley has 29 quotes on this site.
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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,…
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The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God;…
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A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.
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The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
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Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.
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Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.
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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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A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
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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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A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.
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In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.
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More Dispense Quotes
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I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement.
— Nick Cave
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
— Dick Cavett
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To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home,…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Am I a harp that the hand of the mighty may touch me, or a flute that his breath may…
— Khalil Gibran
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Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.
— Oscar Wilde
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Court... a place where they dispense with justice.
— Arthur Cheney Train
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In geology we cannot dispense with conjectures: [but] because we are condemned to dream let us ensure that our dreams…
— Unknown Author
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In obedience to humanity, the King of the universe come down from heaven! In obedience to humanity, he lives imprisoned…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe…
— Marquis de Sade
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Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make…
— Havelock Ellis
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Who then would not like to see these benefits flow upon the world from the law, as from an inexhaustible…
— Frederic Bastiat
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