Edward Gibbon | work
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Edward Gibbon | teacher
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.
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Edward Gibbon | power
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
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Edward Gibbon | power
The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
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Edward Gibbon | learning
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
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