Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
From Edward Gibbon
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.
The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.
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