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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
"Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies - for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry - I say to myself, "What a pity I can't buy that book, for I already have a copy at home."
"Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic."
Explore more quotes by Edward Gibbon
"History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."
"Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself."
"Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused."
"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."
"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."
"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."
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