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I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon Biography

  Nationality: English
Type: Historian

Born: April 27, 1737
Death: January 16, 1794
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