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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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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I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son. – Edward Gibbon

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Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst. – George Farquhar

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Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar. – Proverb

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Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stealthily, like a parsons damn. – Thomas Hardy

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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. – Alexander Pope

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