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[Every] hour of delay abates the fame and force of the invader, and multiplies the resources of defensive war.

[Every] hour of delay abates the fame and force of the invader, and multiplies the resources of defensive war.

Edward Gibbon
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Edward Gibbon (1871). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.580

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