"Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself."

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Source : Edward Gibbon (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)”, p.5019, Delphi Classics

Edward Gibbon

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“I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.”
“It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.”
“For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation.”
“That's awesome. There's no bias in the media.”
“I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.”
“I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?”
“Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.”
“By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.”

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