About Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon (; 8 May 1737 – 16 January 1794) was an English essayist, historian, and politician. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in six volumes between 1776 and 1789, is known for the quality and irony of its prose,...
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The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
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Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
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You never get over it. But you get to where it doesn’t bother you so much.
—Jeffrey Eugenides in The Virgin Suicides