Style is the image of character. ✨ Edward Gibbon, John Holroyd Earl of…

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Style is the image of character. ✨ Edward Gibbon, John Holroyd Earl of Sheffield (1796). Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, p.1
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Style is the image of character. ✨ Edward Gibbon, John Holroyd Earl of Sheffield (1796). Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, p.1

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