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Edward Gibbon
English
Historian
Born:
Apr 27
,
1737
Died:
Jan 16
,
1794
Language
Little
Our
Thinking
Work
World
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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Edward Gibbon
Work
Our
Capabilities
Presentation
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
Edward Gibbon
Respect
Mistake
People
No Respect
Arguing
Never
Make
Opinions
Whose
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
Edward Gibbon
Conversation
Solitude
Genius
School
Understanding
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.
Edward Gibbon
Government
World
Prevailed
Seems
Various
Fairest
Scope
Which
Forms
Ridicule
Monarchy
Present
Hereditary
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
Edward Gibbon
Learning
Book
Thinking
Resolved
Composition
Habits
Write
Unskilled
Arts
Original
The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
Edward Gibbon
General
Laws
True
Particular
Probability
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon
History
Crimes
Indeed
Follies
More
Misfortunes
Than
Little
Register
Mankind
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.
Edward Gibbon
Work
Memory
Try
Long
Practice
Single
Action
Pen
Paragraph
Given
Cast
Had
Polish
Always
Till
Been
Mould
Suspend
Deposit
Ear
Last
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.
Edward Gibbon
Happiness
Friendship
Passion
Sex
Rest
Single
Our
Sole
Possession
Seeks
Tenderness
Supreme
Female
Understand
Inflamed
Being
Which
Union
Her
Desire
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.
Edward Gibbon
Language
Chaste
Obscurity
Learned
Passages
Text
Left
Decent
English
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