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

By Thomas De Quincey

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.

By Thomas De Quincey

Solitude, though it may be 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.

By Thomas De Quincey

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

By Thomas de Quincey

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

By Thomas De Quincey