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Quote by Edward Gibbon
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in

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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History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. – Edward Gibbon

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Will power is only the tensile strength of ones own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. – Cesare Pavese

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