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Quotations By Edward Gibbon


Ability
The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Beauty
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Experience
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

Weakness
Amiable weakness of human nature.