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- Thus the evidence given by those five new thigh bones of the morphological and functional distinctness of Pithecanthropus erectus furnishes proof, at… — Unknown Author
- Labour leaders lead us all, though we know they bleed us all. Cheer our new Decline and Fall, Gibbon might have dreamed… — Noel Coward
- Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Mr. Gibbon? — Unknown Author
- I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all. I scribbled all my opinions on… — Winston Churchill
- When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation… — Walter Russell Mead
- "From the reign of Nero to that of Antoninus Pius," Gibbon says again, "the Jews discovered a fierce impatience of the dominion… — Nesta Helen Webster
- Civilization - and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the… — Evelyn Waugh
- The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon 's immense work… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- We can no longer communicate with the apes by direct language, nor can we understand, without special study, their modes of communication… — Stephen Leacock
- What's that supposed to be anyway?" said Fred squinting at Dobby's painting. "Looks like a Gibbon with two black eyes!" "It's Harry,"… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon? — Elizabeth Gilbert
- The fact alone that both, like Chatham before them, were great war ministers, links their names inseparably. Beyond that, they shared many… — Unknown Author