The abbreviation of time, and the failure of hope, will always tinge with a browner… — Edward Gibbon
The abbreviation of time, and the failure of hope, will always tinge with a browner shade the evening of life.
1794
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Gibbon, Edward. Memoirs of My Life, edited by Betty Radice. Penguin, 1984.
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Gibbon, Edward. "Memoirs of My Life and Writings." Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, edited by John Sheffield. Vol. 1, London: A Strahan and T. Cadell Jun. and W. David, 1796.
