• History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

  Edward Gibbon
  British historian 1737-1794
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. misfortunes
2. follies
3. mankind

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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. by : Edward Gibbon

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