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

Style is the image of character. – Edward Gibbon

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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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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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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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Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud. – Maurice Blanchot

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

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Death is less bitter punishment than deaths delay. – Ovid

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The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Once music ceases to be ephemeral – always disappearing – and becomes instead material… it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time. – Brian Eno

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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. – Virginia Woolf

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