It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights. (Pierre Stephen Robert Payne)

It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights.

Pierre Stephen Robert Payne

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