All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance. — Edward Gibbon
All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · 1789
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Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-6. Vol. 6. Everyman's Library, 2010, ch. 71.
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Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 6, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1789, ch. 71.
