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Edward Gibbon
About Author: English historian of Rome (1737 - 1794)
Quotes:We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
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