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Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Edward Gibbon
Born: April 27, 1737
Died: January 16, 1794 (aged 56)
Bio: Edward Gibbon was an English historian and Member of Parliament. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788.
Known for:
- Memoirs of My Life and Writings
- The autobiographies of Edward Gibbon
- The Christians and the Fall of Rome
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