#middle age

Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do. ↗

— Richard Hughes

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Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does. ↗

— Gerald Brenan

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The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

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It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. ↗

— Margaret Mead

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Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age. ↗

— Elliot Paul

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The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

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Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places. ↗

— E. Joseph Cossman

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The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat. ↗

— Vilhjalmur Stefansson

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I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

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