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Quote by Edward Gibbon
Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our pos

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

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

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