Edward Gibbon

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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.

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kaikaikaikaikai 11 years ago
It's quotes like these that show me how glad we should be to live in the time of electronics. Writing, re-writing and editing has never been as effortless as today.

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