Quotation by Edward Gibbon

The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.
Edward Gibbon (1737–1794), British historian. Published in Routledge, Autobiography, p. 98 (1971). Memoirs of My Life (1796).
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