Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
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As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.Edward Gibbon
If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus. 96180 A. D.
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Amiable weaknesses of human nature.
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... vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.
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Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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I saw and loved.
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