WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:58:36 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg rise and fall – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Byron, George Gordon, Lord -- Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto 4, st. 108 (1818) https://wist.info/byron/76512/ https://wist.info/byron/76512/#respond Mon, 05 May 2025 22:57:43 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=76512 There is the moral of all human tales;
‘Tis but the same rehearsal of the past,
First Freedom, and then Glory — when that fails,
Wealth — Vice — Corruption, — Barbarism at last.


George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788–1824) English poet
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto 4, st. 108 (1818)
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William James (Will) Durant (1885–1981) American historian, teacher, philosopher
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