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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

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive. – Edward Gibbon

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power
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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

Category:
War
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Edward Gibbon
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What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. – Charles Baudelaire

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Style

A mans palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Style

Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions. – Martin Amis

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Style

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

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Style

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Ohio claims they are due a president as they havent had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln. – Will Rogers

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I liked sports but I never really had the confidence. I was always coordinated and it came easy to me, but I didnt have the confidence to go along with the physical skill. – Bradley Cooper

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What way should Victor take in the labyrinth of beauty?— All the sixty-four radii of the compass stretched themselves out as so many fingerposts, and he had sense enough not to propose to himself any particular hour of arriving. – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,

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Though confined to our destiny, we do get to pick the color scheme. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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