[Every] hour of delay abates the fame and force of the invader, and multiplies the resources of defensive war.
Edward Gibbon (1871). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.580
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[Every] hour of delay abates the fame and force of the invader, and multiplies the resources of defensive war.