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“The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history, which is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1da612b2c7984db21ef4df300ef248a09640e398157e430662e4b99087fe35fb
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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Algernon Sidney
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“And with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excus'd his devilish deeds.”
John Milton
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Oliver Goldsmith
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