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Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else.

— Thomas De Quincey Letter to Hessey (1823)

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Solitude, though silent as light, is, like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone; all leave it alone.

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

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822)

It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it, and becomes trustworthy as you trust it.

The laughter of girls is, and ever was, among the delightful sounds of earth.

Coleridge and Opium-Eating (1845)

A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822)

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