1. "The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. —Edward Gibbon At"
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David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
2. "The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. —Edward Gibbon"
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David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
3. "Another d-mn'd thick, square book! Always, scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Mr. Gibbon?"
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Edward Gibbon, Memoirs of My Life
4. "To resist was fatal, and it was impossible to fly. —EDWARD GIBBON,"
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Clive James, Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
5. "Edward Gibbon said that in ancient Rome all religions were to the people equally true, to the philosophers equally false, and to the government equally useful."
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Philip Yancey, Christians and Politics Uneasy Partners
6. "Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?"
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Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat
7. "The great work of Gibbon is indispensable to the student of history. The literature of Europe offers no substitute for "The"
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Edward Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
8. "Edward Gibbon, in his classic work on the fall of the Roman Empire, describes the Roman era's declension as a place where "bizarreness masqueraded as creativity."
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Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
9. "If, as Gibbon says, nothing but time - though a long time- is required for a world to perish; so nothing but time -though still more time- is required for a false idea to be destroyed in Germany."
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Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
10. "It is a fact that, being a quick reader, apart from enabling a person to study good books such as Macaulay and Gibbon, enables a person to read a lot of bad books as well."
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Antonia Fraser, My History: A Memoir of Growing Up