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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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The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature. – Edward Gibbon

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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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Here is the piece. If you cant say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment. – Ernest Hemingway

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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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