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"It was Rome, on the fifteenth of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefoot friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind."

    --- Edward Gibbon, author of "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"

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