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

Quote by Edward Gibbon

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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But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. – Edward Gibbon

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Style is the image of character. – Edward Gibbon

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I was never less alone than when by myself. – Edward Gibbon

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