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Quotations by Edward Gibbon |
History is a registry of crimes and follies - History . . . is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. Offences worse than the punishments - Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigor of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind. Either advance or retrograde - All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. The banishment of alchemy - Philosophy, with the aid of experience, has at length banished the study of alchemy; and the present age, however desirous of riches, is content to seek them by the humbler means of commerce and industry. |
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