"Another damned thick book! Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh, Mr. Gibbon?"
— Edward Gibbon

January 1, 1970

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Attributed to Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, 1781, upon receiving the second (or third, or possibly both) volume(s) of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire from the author. quoted by Sir Leslie Stephen in the Dictionary of National Biography, (1921), vol. 21, p. 1133