"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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"No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found."
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"All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it."
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"I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans I will not reason and compare: my business is to create."
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"When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude."
-William Wordsworth
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