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Edward Gibbon - ... vicissitudes of fortune, which...
... vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave. (Edward Gibbon)

... vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

Edward Gibbon

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