# Quote — René Weis, The Yellow Cross

> The perception of time among these mostly illiterate thirteenth-century inhabitants of may at first strike the twentieth-century reader as vague at best. They did not always know exactly how old they were, and their sense of history was strictly local.

- Author: [René Weis](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rene-weis.md)
- Book: [The Yellow Cross](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rene-weis/the-yellow-cross.md)
- Page: 19
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