English Period

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“The difference is wide that the sheets will not decide.”
—English proverb, collected in John Ray, English Proverbs (1670)

“It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: “youth” is the privileged age of the seventeenth century, childhood of the nineteenth, adolescence of the twentieth.”
—Philippe Ariés (20th century)