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

— Edward Gibbon

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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

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Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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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. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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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

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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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Life is so great every day. I am telling things every day. ↗

— Nina Hagen

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