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)
“Could it be that those who were reared in the postwar years really were spoiled, as we used to hear? Did a child-centered generation, raised in depression and war, produce a self-centered generation that resents children and parenthood?”
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)
“Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.”
—John Lothrop Motley (1814–1877)
“A fool, A fool! I met a fool i’ the forest,
A motley fool. A miserable world!
As I do live by food, I met a fool,
Who laid him down and basked him in the sun,
And railed on Lady Fortune in good terms,
In good set terms, and yet a motley fool.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)