Edward Gibbon - Memoirs of My Life and Writings

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It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mold, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.

Edward Gibbon

After a powerful struggle, I yielded to my fate. I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.

Edward Gibbon

The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.

Edward Gibbon