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Autobiography Quote by Edward Gibbon

“Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.” quote by Edward Gibbon — Download Open image

“Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.”

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That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;…

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The sectaries of a persecuted religion, depressed by fear, animated with resentment, and perhaps heated by enthusiasm, are seldom in a proper temper of…

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A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.

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[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy.

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Constantinople was the principal seat and fortress of Arianism; and, in a long interval of forty years, the faith of the princes and prelates…

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It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable.

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If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was…

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But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor…

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[Every] hour of delay abates the fame and force of the invader, and multiplies the resources of defensive war.

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I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

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“I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity. What kind…

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“Someday, I want to write an unauthorized autobiography of myself.”

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“As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like the elixir…

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I caught a cold and didn't have time to work on my autobiography.

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Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world

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The way I would live my life is: never do something in real life that I would not want to write about in my…

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biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer.

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I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been writing them.

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I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.

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