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Quote by Edward Gibbon
Style is the image of character. - Edward Gibbon

Style is the image of character. – Edward Gibbon

Other quotes by Edward Gibbon

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

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History
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Edward Gibbon
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I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. – Edward Gibbon

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Friendship
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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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Learning
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Edward Gibbon
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Other Quotes from
Style
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It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. – Renata Adler

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Style

No taste is so acquired as that for someone elses quality of mind. – Cyril Connolly

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Style

A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs. – Coco Chanel

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Style

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

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Style

Random Quotes

The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount. – B. F. Skinner

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positive

A good, real, unrestrained, hearty laugh is a sort of glorified internal massage, performed rapidly and automatically. It manipulates and revitalizes corners and unexplored crannies of the system that are unresponsive to most other exercise methods. – Author unknown, from an editorial in New-York Tribune, quoted in Quotations for

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Laughter

Just as important as having a list of priorities is every once in a while starting from the bottom. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Perspective

I think Im also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions, whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records. – Michelle Branch

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teen