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Quote by Edward Gibbon
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, a

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. – Edward Gibbon

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Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. – Edward Gibbon

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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 exalted characters. – Edward Gibbon

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Hip-hops always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music its always had a lot of positivity. – LL Cool J

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Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth. – Walter Raleigh, History of the World

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A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away; so more blood must be shed to renew it. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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