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 the obscurity of a learned language. – Edward Gibbon

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

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Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition. – 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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