Edward Gibbon's Quote - My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in

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My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language. – Edward Gibbon

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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. – Edward Gibbon

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History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. – Edward Gibbon

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Style is the image of character. – Edward Gibbon

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Take not Gods name in vain; select a time when it will have effect. – Ambrose Bierce

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