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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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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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My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India. ↗

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

— Edward Gibbon

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But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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

— Edward Gibbon

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My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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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

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