Hervey Allen Quotes

Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages. - Hervey Allen Quotes

Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested. - Hervey Allen Quotes

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In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized. - Hervey Allen Quotes

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Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded. - Hervey Allen Quotes

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Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void. - Hervey Allen Quotes

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Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. - Hervey Allen Quotes

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