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Edward Gibbon Quotes

«As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters»
«My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.»
«I was never less alone than when by myself»
«Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself»
Author: Edward Gibbon (Historian) | Keywords: received, rises
«Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.»
Author: Edward Gibbon (Historian) | Keywords: imperfect
«Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.»
«Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.»
Author: Edward Gibbon (Historian) | Keywords: crowds, dissipation
«In every deed of mischief he [Comenus] had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.»
«Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism»
«Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule»

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