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Geoffrey of Monmouth

Geoffrey of Monmouth (12th-century Welsh/English author)

“Nothing that is acquired by force and violence can ever be held legally by anyone.”

  • From Geoffrey of Monmouth’s The History of the Kings of Britain (9.16), completed in 1136, translated from Latin into English by Lewis Thorpe (Penguin Classics, 1966).

 

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