Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.
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Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.Thomas de Quincey
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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The burden of the incommunicable.
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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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