"Our work is the presentation of our capabilities."
-Edward Gibbon
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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
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"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."
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"I was never less alone than when by myself."
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"I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect."
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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."
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"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."
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