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

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language. – Edward Gibbon

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Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. – Edward Gibbon

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As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of exalted characters. – Edward Gibbon

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Style is the image of character. – Edward Gibbon

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The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him. – John Ruskin

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Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another. – Herbert Marcuse

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Take not Gods name in vain; select a time when it will have effect. – Ambrose Bierce

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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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