As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on t…

Edward Gibbon
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As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters. ✨ Edward Gibbon (1781). The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, p.8
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As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters. ✨ Edward Gibbon (1781). The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, p.8

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