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Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Netherlands · John Lothrop Motley — chapter 21 of 40 · ~229 words · public domain

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Make sheep of yourselves, and the wolf will eat you

Make the very name of man a term of reproach

Man is never so convinced of his own wisdom

Man who cannot dissemble is unfit to reign

Man had only natural wrongs (No natural rights)

Man had no rights at all He was property

Mankind were naturally inclined to calumny

Manner in which an insult shall be dealt with

Many greedy priests, of lower rank, had turned shop-keepers

Maritime heretics

Matter that men may rather pray for than hope for

Matters little by what name a government is called

Meantime the second civil war in France had broken out

Mediocrity is at a premium

Meet around a green table except as fencers in the field

Men were loud in reproof, who had been silent

Men fought as if war was the normal condition of humanity

Men who meant what they said and said what they meant

Mendacity may always obtain over innocence and credulity

Military virtue in the support of an infamous cause

Misanthropical, sceptical philosopher

Misery had come not from their being enemies

Mistake to stumble a second time over the same stone

Mistakes might occur from occasional deviations into sincerity

Mockery of negotiation in which nothing could be negotiated

Modern statesmanship, even while it practises, condemns

Monasteries, burned their invaluable libraries

Mondragon was now ninety-two years old

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