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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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Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. – Edward Gibbon

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