[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks.
Edward Gibbon (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.271
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[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks.