Edward Gibbon Quotes - Page 3
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Yet the arts of Severus cannot be justified by the most ample privileges of state reason. He promised only to betray; he flattered only to ruin; and however he might occasionally bind himself by oaths and treaties, his conscience, obsequious to his interest, always released him from the inconvenient obligation.
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Edward Gibbon
- Born: April 27, 1737
- Died: January 16, 1794
- Occupation: Historian
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