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Edward Gibbon: The style of...

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The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.

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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