My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the…

Edward Gibbon
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My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. ✨ Edward Gibbon (1900). The Memoirs of the Life of Edward Gibbon with Various Observations and Excursions
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