Edward Gibbon's Quote - The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly auth

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The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly auth

The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant. – Edward Gibbon

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My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language. – Edward Gibbon

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But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. – Edward Gibbon

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I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son. – Edward Gibbon

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