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Edward Gibbon


Arguably the most important historian since the time of the ancient Roman Tacitus.
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Edward Gibbon
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Gibbon quotes
It was Rome, on the fifteenth of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefoot friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Gibbon
The successors of Charles the Fifth may disdain their brethren of England; but the romance of Tom Jones, that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of the house of Austria.




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