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• I saw and loved. -- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) -- Memoirs, Vol. i, p. 106
• On the approach of spring I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.
  -- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) -- Memoirs, Vol. i, p. 116...
• I am never less at leisure than when at leisure, nor less alone than when I am alone.
  -- Scipio Africanu...
• I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. Edward Gibbo
• I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore
  and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me....
• He was not merely a chip of the old block, but the old block itself.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- On Pitt's First Speech, Feb....
• Then never less alone than when alone. -- Samuel Rogers (1763-1855) -- Human Life
• A wise and salutary neglect. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol.
  ii, p. 117...
• Sea of upturned faces. -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Speech, Sept, 30, 1842, Vol. ii, p. 117