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As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.
Approximate author period: c. 1765 AD · early modern
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- Edward Gibbon
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- Approximate author period: c. 1765 AD · early modern
author lifetime midpoint (1737–1794)
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 274 · printed citation: Gibbon · subject: War
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