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My English Text Is Chaste, And All Licentious Passages Are Left In The Decent Obscurity Of A Learned Language.
-Edward Gibbon
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My English Text Is Chaste,
Edward Gibbon
My English Text Is Chaste, And All Licentious Passages Are Left In The Decent Obscurity Of A Learned Language.
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