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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

4606 Edward Gibbon 1737-1794 John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:4606
AUTHOR:Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)
QUOTATION:Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.
ATTRIBUTION:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776). Chap. lxxi.