Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. — Edward Gibbon

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · 1781
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Provenance
Current citation
Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-6. Vol. 3. Everyman's Library, 2010, ch. 49.
Original citation
Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 3, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1781, ch. 49.

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