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Quote by Edward Gibbon
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause

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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