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The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

~Edward Gibbon

Topics: Cheapest Common Courage Found Human Human Nature Most Nature Quality Soldier

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Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

~Edward Gibbon

Topics: Conversation Genius School Solitude Understanding

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Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

~Edward Gibbon

Topics: Beauty Been Despised Except Gift Outward Refused Seldom Those Which Whom

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My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

~Edward Gibbon

Topics: Decent English Language Learned Left Obscurity Passages Text

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The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

~Edward Gibbon

Topics: Constitution Executive Free Legislative Lost Nominated Power Principles

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Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

~Edward Gibbon

Topics: Desires Despotism Freedom Our Possessions Poverty Secured Since Strongest

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Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

~Edward Gibbon

Topics: Aid End Let Us May Method Our Ourselves Point Propose Read Reading Studies Thinking Us Use Which

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Historian

Born: April 27th, 1737

Died: January 16th, 1794

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