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Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive. >>

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. >>

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. >>

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The Thames is liquid history. >>

History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill >>

Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. >>

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

Gibbon, Edward



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