Quotes by Thomas De Quincey

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• Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

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• Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.

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• If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

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• In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

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• Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

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• Once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

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• Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.

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• Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium!

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Subjects in these quotes:

• sabbath-breaking
• procrastination
• sensibilities
• intellectual
• conscience
• expensive

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