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Edward Gibbon
1737 – 1794 • English • Historian
37
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Collected Meditations
Showing 37 quotesOf the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.— Edward Gibbon
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
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.— Edward Gibbon
It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.— Edward Gibbon