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It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, 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.

Source: Memoirs of my Life, 1796.
-- Edward Gibbon, (May 8 1737-1794), English historian; His masterpiece was The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1776-1788.

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