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I was never less alone than when by myself.

— Edward Gibbon Memoirs (1796)

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Source: Vol. i. p. 117. Compare: "Never less alone than when alone", Samuel Rogers, Human Life; "In solitude, where we are least alone", Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III, Stanza 90.
Work: Memoirs, 1796
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