But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in tho…

Edward Gibbon
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But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. ✨ Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1840). The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, p.79
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