Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.
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Edward Gibbon was a 18th-century British essayist, historian and politician. Edward Gibbon was a British essayist, historian and politician. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in six volumes between 1776 and 1789, is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its polemical criticism of organized religion. Read more on Wikipedia →