I was never less alone than when by myself.
Edward Gibbon Quotes
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I was never less alone than when by myself.
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Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
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The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
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Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
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I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
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Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.
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I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
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History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.