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Quotation by Thomas De Quincey
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822)"Murder Considered As One of the Fine Arts" The Collected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, ed. D. Masson (1889)"Preliminary Confessions" Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822)The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822)"The Pleasures of Opium" Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822)Related Subjects
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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.
Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859), British author. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827). "Murder Considered As One of the Fine Arts," The Collected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, ed. D. Masson (1889).
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