"Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.“


-Edward Gibbon

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Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

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