Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive. ✨ Edward Gibbon (2016).…

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Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive. ✨ Edward Gibbon (2016). THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages, p.374, e-artnow
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