It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mo…

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. ✨ Edward Gibbon, John Holroyd Earl of Sheffield (1837). The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, p.97
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