Edward Gibbon | history
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Edward Gibbon | happiness
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
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Edward Gibbon | government
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.
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Edward Gibbon | friendship
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
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Edward Gibbon | freedom
Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
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