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But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

Edward Gibbon
History, Instruction, Disposition
Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.79
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.