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Edward Gibbon

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
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Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
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Style is the image of character.
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The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.
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I was never less alone than when by myself.
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It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
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I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
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I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.
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Biography

Lived 1737 - 1794, English historian



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English, Historian
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