Edward Gibbon's Quote - Style is the image of character. – Edward Gibbon

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Style is the image of character. - Edward Gibbon

Style is the image of character. – Edward Gibbon

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

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

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Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters. – Lord Chesterfield

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Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect. – Jean De La Bruyere

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What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. – Charles Baudelaire

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Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. – Henry Adams

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