Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
Edward Gibbon Quotations
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The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.
The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.