Edward Gibbon Quote

It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable....

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 3: Complete in Eight Volumes (ed. 1825)

It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable....

It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable....

It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable....

It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable....