[Whole] generations may be swept away by the madness of kings in the space of a single hour.
Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1860). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.440
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[Whole] generations may be swept away by the madness of kings in the space of a single hour.