Edward Gibbon on History

Posted on Apr 24, 2020 by . Filed under Cynical, History, Humanity, War

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

Edward Gibbon
English historian of Rome (1737 – 1794)

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