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If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during whichthe conditionof thehumanrace was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.

-Gibbon, Edward
^88  The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ch.3.

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