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[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy.
Edward Gibbon
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Edward Gibbon
Age: 56 †
Born: 1737
Born: May 8
Died: 1794
Died: January 16
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[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.
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I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.
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The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our wants and our property, as letters were invented to express our ideas and both these institutions, by giving a more active energy to the powers and passions of human nature, have contributed to multiply the objects they were designed to represent.
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History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
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