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

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Attributed, when presented with the second volume of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. These words have also been attributed to King George III and the Duke of Cumberland. Quoted in Chamber's Dictionary of Quotations, p.359