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Edward Gibbon: Quotes

  • Ability
    The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.Edward Gibbon: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Gratitude
    Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.Edward Gibbon: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • History
    History . . . is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.Edward Gibbon: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Progress
    All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.Edward Gibbon: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire