More From Edward Gibbon
- "But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."
- "Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism."
- "I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect."
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