Daring Rocket» deduced http://daringrocket.com a lot goes on forever Sat, 09 Jul 2011 00:08:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Book of the fortnight http://daringrocket.com/2009/10/book-of-the-fortnight http://daringrocket.com/2009/10/book-of-the-fortnight#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:21:26 +0000 george http://daringrocket.com/?p=1839 Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

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If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the acccession of Commodus.

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