But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who is listening to me; and, if I stop to consider what is proper to be said to this or that person, I shall soon come to doubt whether any part at all is proper.
- Thomas de Quincey
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Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived... In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.
For tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities, or are become so... If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and... It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not... Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is... All that is literature seeks to communicate power
Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!
There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not... Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn...
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