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• Edward Gibbon:

  The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the su

• Edward Gibbon:

  The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.

• Edward Gibbon:

  Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

• Edward Gibbon:

  The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

• Edward Gibbon:

  Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.

• Edward Gibbon:

  All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

• Edward Gibbon:

  I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by

• Edward Gibbon:

  Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

• Edward Gibbon:

  I was never less alone than when by myself.

• Edward Gibbon:

  We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.