It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
-- Edward Gibbon
   
Edward Gibbon   Name:
Edward Gibbon
Type:
Historian
Nationality:
English
Birth:
April 27, 1737
Death:
January 16, 1794
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