I’ve studied the lives of the 20th century’s great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success. – Alex Spanos
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. – David Hare
Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began. – Ralph Adams Cram
It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear. – Thomas Bulfinch