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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
Work
Action
Memory
Pen
Practice
Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.
Edward Gibbon
End
May
Reading
Thinking
Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
Edward Gibbon
Feelings
Fanaticism
Humanity