Quotes by William Stearns Davis

"Yet you know Solon’s saying, ‘Call no man fortunate till he is dead."
William Stearns Davis
"the tax collectors found no more money to collect because there were no more people to pay the tax."
William Stearns Davis
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William Stearns Davis (April 30, 1877 – February 15, 1930) was an American educator, historian, and author. He has been cited as one who "contributed to history as a scholarly discipline, . . . was in...