The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
More from Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Permalink to quote #7 Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.
Permalink to quote #9 In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
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