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  -- Edward Gibbon (1734-1794)...
• Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
  -- Edward Gibbon (1734-1794)...
• I saw and loved. -- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) -- Memoirs, Vol. i, p. 106
• I was never less alone than when by myself. -- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) -- Memoirs, Vol.
  i, p. 117...
• I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. Edward Gibbo
• Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
  -- Edward Gibbo...
• I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help of the woman I love.
  -- Edward, Duke of Windso...
• Far beyond all other pleasures, rarer than jewels or treasures, sweeter than grape from the vine.
  Yes! Yes! Greatest of pleasures! Coffee, coffee, how I love its flavor, and if you would win my favor, yes!...
• Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.
  -- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) -- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776), Chap. lxxi...