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Amiable Weaknesses Of Human Nature. -- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) -- Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (1776), Chap.
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Amiable weaknesses of human nature.
-- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
-- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776), Chap. xiv
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