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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

Edward Gibbon Biography

  Nationality: English
Type: Historian

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