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  • The ancients were destitute of many of the conveniences of life which have been invented or improved by the progress of industry; and the plenty of glass and linen has diffused more real comforts among the modern nations of Europe than the senators of Rome could derive from all the refinements of pompous or sensual luxury.

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    Edward Gibbon (1846). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.106

  • [Every age], however destitute of science or virtue, sufficiently abounds with acts of blood and military renown.

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    Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.1804, e-artnow
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Edward Gibbon

  • Born: April 27, 1737
  • Died: January 16, 1794
  • Occupation: Historian
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