Vicissitudes Of Fortune, Which Spares Neither Man Nor The Proudest Of His Works, Which Buries Empires And Cities In A Common Grave.

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Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest
of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.
-- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
-- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776), Chap. lxxi

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