![She had always been fond of history, and here [in Rome] was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine.](/assets/img/quote-photos/she-had-always-been-fond-of-history-and-here-in-rome-was-history-in-the-stones.jpg)
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Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration; such a monument of its power, may indeed be stamped with immortality, but like the Coliseum at Rome, we deplore its magnificence because we detest the purposes for which it was designed. Charles Caleb Colton
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The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilized society; and we may inquire, with anxious curiosity, whether Europe is still threatened with a repetition of those calamities, which formerly oppressed the arms and institutions of Rome. Edward Gibbon
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