Edward Gibbon: 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.

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.

-- Edward Gibbon


		Name: Edward Gibbon Type: Historian Nationality: English Birth: April 27, 1737 Death: January 16, 1794

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