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Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

Edward Gibbon
Government, History, British Monarchy
Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.197
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.