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— Edward Gibbon"The revolution of ages may bring round the same calamities; but ages may revolve without producing a Tacitus to describe them."
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Fear has been the original parent of superstition, and every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of their invisible enemies.
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