Quote#Wisdom
Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each…
Quote byHervey Allen · 1889–1949
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Carolina Chansons (1922), Preface.
English (original)
Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.
— Hervey Allen
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