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Style is the image of character. - Edward Gibbon

Style is the image of character. – Edward Gibbon

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Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. – Edward Gibbon

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The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant. – Edward Gibbon

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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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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. – Samuel Butler

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The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them. – G. K. Chesterton

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Every orientation presupposes a disorientation. – Hans Magnus Enzensberger

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I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States. – Harold Bloom

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I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. – Albert Einstein

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Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live. – Henry Van Dyke

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Books of quotation are not only of importance to the reader for what they contain of matured thought, but also for what they suggest. Our brains receive the spark and become luminous, like inflammable material by the contact of flint and steel. – Maturin M. Ballou, January 1886, preface to Edge-Tools of Speech

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