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  • There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.

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    Edward Gibbon (2000). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.253, Modern Library
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There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times. - Edward Gibbon
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