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Quotes from An Introduction to the History of Western Europe — James Harvey Robinson

1863–1936 United States

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It is impossible to divide the past into distinct, clearly defined periods and prove that one age ended and another began in a particular year, such as 476, or 1453, or 1789. Men do not and cannot change their habits and ways of doing things all at once, no matter what happens.

An Introduction to the History of Western Europe (1902)

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