Edward Gibbon Quote

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.


The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume the First (ed. 1776)


But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.