Sancho III of Navarre/acquisition of Le%c3%b3n

Famous quotes containing the words sancho, iii and/or acquisition:

    Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

    The Empress is Legitimist, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.
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    Whatever may be our just grievances in the southern states, it is fitting that we acknowledge that, considering their poverty and past relationship to the Negro race, they have done remarkably well for the cause of education among us. That the whole South should commit itself to the principle that the colored people have a right to be educated is an immense acquisition to the cause of popular education.
    Fannie Barrier Williams (1855–1944)