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

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Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. – Edward Gibbon

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Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. – Edward Gibbon

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I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first. – Karl Lagerfeld

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We are not at war against Islam. – Barack Obama

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I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think its hard for young people today, dont you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country. – Julia Child

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The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. – George Orwell

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