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Quote by Edward Gibbon
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. – 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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Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. – Edward Gibbon

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Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. – Attributed to Robert Benchley by Evan Esar in 1949, however a similar saying alr

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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact—from calling on us to look through a heap of millet-seed in order to be sure that there is no pearl in it. – George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such, 1879

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Talk to people about themselves and they will listen for hours. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. – Adlai Stevenson

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People are not perfect (except when they smile). – Author Unknown

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Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. – Robert Frost

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