John Lothrop Motley (Dorchester, near Boston, Massachusetts, April 15, 1814 and died May 29, 1877, near Dorchester, Dorset) was an American historian and diplomat.
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“Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.”
—John Lothrop Motley (1814–1877)
“I, a poor peasant, have conquered science. Why can’t I conquer love? Don’t you understand? You must be mine, not his. You are mine.”
—P. J. Wolfson, John L. Balderston (1899–1954)
“Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.”
—John Lothrop Motley (1814–1877)
“Drinking tents were full, glasses began to clink in carriages, hampers to be unpacked, tempting provisions to be set forth, knives and forks to rattle, champagne corks to fly, eyes to brighten that were not dull before, and pickpockets to count their gains during the last heat. The attention so recently strained on one object of interest, was now divided among a hundred; and, look where you would, there was a motley assemblage of feasting, talking, begging, gambling and mummery.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)