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• Edward Gibbon:

  The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

• Edward Gibbon:

  Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

• Goldwin Smith:

  Above all nations is humanity.

• Goldwin Smith:

  Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.

• Goldwin Smith:

  The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race.

• Goldwin Smith:

  Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are

• Goldwin Smith:

  It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of

• Goldwin Smith:

  That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain.

• Goldwin Smith:

  The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to s

• Goldwin Smith:

  The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.