"Oh, one must read Gibbon to get any insight into this wild history of mankind."
— Edward Gibbon

January 1, 1970

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Thomas Carlyle, remarks to William Allingham (24 June 1877), quoted in William Allingham, A Diary, eds. H. Allingham and D. Radford (1908), p. 256