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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
Fairest
Forms
Government
Hereditary
Monarchy
Present
Ridicule
Scope
Seems
Various
Which
World
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Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
~ Edward Gibbon
Cold
Distant
Misery
Our
Relation
Sympathy
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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
~ Edward Gibbon
Capabilities
Our
Presentation
Work
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Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
~ Edward Gibbon
Expensive
Gratitude
Profitable
Revenge
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Style is the image of character.
~ Edward Gibbon
Character
Image
Style
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The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.
~ Edward Gibbon
Author
Best
Deeply
Event
Himself
His
Interested
Judge
None
Own
Performance
Sincerely
Subject
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The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
~ Edward Gibbon
Cheapest
Common
Courage
Found
Human
Human Nature
Most
Nature
Quality
Soldier
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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
Beginning
End
Final
Genuine
Loneliness
Longer
Ourselves
Talk
Thinking
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The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
~ Edward Gibbon
General
Laws
Particular
Probability
True
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The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.
~ Edward Gibbon
Almost
Always
Consists
Detail
Events
Little
Pathetic
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The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
~ Edward Gibbon
Constitution
Executive
Free
Legislative
Lost
Nominated
Power
Principles
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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
Author
Choice
Command
Exercise
Fruit
His
Image
Language
Mind
Should
Style
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The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.
~ Edward Gibbon
By The People
Considered
Equally
False
Magistrate
Modes
People
Philosopher
Roman
True
Useful
Various
Were
Which
World
Worship
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The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
~ Edward Gibbon
Always
Side
Waves
Winds
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Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
~ Edward Gibbon
Desires
Despotism
Freedom
Our
Possessions
Poverty
Secured
Since
Strongest
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Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
~ Edward Gibbon
Arts
Book
Composition
Habits
Learning
Original
Resolved
Thinking
Unskilled
Write
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We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
~ Edward Gibbon
Contest
Improve
Must
Ourselves
Over
Victories
Win
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AuthorName
Edward Gibbon
Profession
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BirthDate
27 April, 1737
DeathDate
16 January, 1794
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United Kingdom
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