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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342817" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>History</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What wrecked the Roman power? One says vice,<br>Another indolence, another dice.<br>Emascle says polygamy. 'Not so,'<br>Says Impycu-''twas luxury and show.'<br>The parson, lifting up a brow of brass,<br>Swears superstition gave the _coup de grace_,<br>Great Allison, the statesman-chap affirms<br>'Twas lack of coins (croaks Medico: ''T was worms')<br>And John P. Jones the swift suggestion collars,<br>Averring the no coins were silver dollars.<br>Thus, through the ages, each presuming quack<br>Turns the poor corpse upon its rotten back,<br>Holds a new 'autopsy' and finds that death<br>Resulted partly from the want of breath,<br>But chiefly from some visitation sad<br>That points his argument or serves his fad.<br>They're all in error-never human mind<br>The cause of the disaster has divined.<br>What slew the Roman power? Well, provided<br>You'll keep the secret, I will tell you. I did.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ambrose+Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</a><div class=q>
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Another indolence, another dice.
Emascle says polygamy. 'Not so,'
Says Impycu-''twas luxury and show.'
The parson, lifting up a brow of brass,
Swears superstition gave the _coup de grace_,
Great Allison..."></div>
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