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From the paths of blood (and such is the history of nations) I cannot refuse to turn aside to gather some flowers of science or virtue.

Edward Gibbon
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Edward Gibbon (1822). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.465
From the paths of blood (and such is the history of nations) I cannot refuse to turn aside to gather some flowers of science or virtue.