Edward Gibbons
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“Active valor may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.”
― The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
― The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“It is the duty of a patriot to prefer and promote the exclusive interest and glory of his native country; but a philosopher may be permitted to enlarge his views, and to consider Europe as one great republic, whose various inhabitants have attained almost the same level of politeness and cultivation.”
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