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

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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. – Edward Gibbon

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It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon. – Alice James

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Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk. – Henry Miller

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