Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless. ✨ Edward Gibbon (20…

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Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless. ✨ Edward Gibbon (2008). The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, p.35, Cosimo, Inc.
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Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless. ✨ Edward Gibbon (2008). The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, p.35, Cosimo, Inc.

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