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

— Thomas De Quincey Coleridge and Opium-Eating (1845)

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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.

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

Letter to Hessey (1823)

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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