I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
-- Edward Gibbon
   
Edward Gibbon   Name:
Edward Gibbon
Type:
Historian
Nationality:
English
Birth:
April 27, 1737
Death:
January 16, 1794
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