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But a law, however venerable be the sanction, cannot suddenly transform the temper of the times . . .

Edward Gibbon
Law, Sanctions, Temper
Edward Gibbon (1822). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.495
But a law, however venerable be the sanction, cannot suddenly transform the temper of the times . . .