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Century Quotes
Sayings on the shape of a hundred years.
These quotes reflect on what defines a century: a genre that came to dominate popular reading, a slow start to a literary tradition, and the outsized weight some events carry. See our Era quotes for related reflections.
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It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.
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Following its recognition as a state in 1832, Greece spent most of the remainder of the 19th century under the control of creditors. The pattern started with a default in 1832. In consequence, Greece's finances were put under French administration.
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A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.
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I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century.
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'On the Twentieth Century' was always something I wanted to do because of Kristin Chenoweth.
- Eighteenth Century
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Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.
- Poetry
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I read a lot of nineteenth-century French poetry. And Irish poetry from the ninth century on.
- Europe
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As the 19th century progressed, Europe's innovations, norms and categories came to achieve a truly universal hegemony.
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The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.
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