John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
4604 Edward Gibbon 1737-1794 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 4604 |
| AUTHOR: | Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) |
| QUOTATION: | Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776). Chap. xlix. |