Another damned thick, square, book!
Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh!
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The epigraph is attributed to William Henry Hanover [1743-1805]
Duke of Gloucester,
upon receiving the second volume of
Edward Gibbon's [1737-1794]
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in 1781.
Boswell (Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Vol. II)
cites it as from
Best's [Literary?] Memorials.
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