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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| 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. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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