Edward Gibbon

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I was never less alone than when by myself.

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alone

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

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beauty

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

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business

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

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courage

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

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freedom

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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friendship

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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government

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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happiness

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Edward Gibbon
history

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

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history

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