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Edward Gibbon Quotes

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
Edward Gibbon

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Historian Quotes
Category:
English Historian Quotes
Date of Birth:
April 27, 1737
Date of Death:
January 16, 1794
Nationality:
English
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