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Thursday 26 April 2018

HB Edward Gibbon 27 Apr 1737

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. -- Edward Gibbon

We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and we must win.
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) In "The Book of Success," ed. Richard Shea, 1993

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.--Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)

The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. - Edward Gibbon

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