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  • Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

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    Edward Gibbon (1839). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.127
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Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. - Edward Gibbon
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