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> [It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-quincey/it-is-most-absurdly-said-in-popular-language-of-any-man-that-he-is/)

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## More by Thomas de Quincey

> [“A long, loud, and canorous peal of laughter.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-quincey/a-long-loud-and-canorous-peal-of-laughter/)

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> [Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-quincey/out-of-the-ruined-lodge-and-forgotten-mansion-bowers-that-are-trodden/)

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> [It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-quincey/it-is-most-absurdly-said-in-popular-language-of-any-man-that-he-is/)

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> [Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated everlasting farewells!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-quincey/everlasting-farewells-and-again-and-yet-again-reverberated/)

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> [The burden of the incommunicable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-quincey/the-burden-of-the-incommunicable/)

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> [Paint me an eternal tea-pot, for I usually drink tea from eight o'clock at night to four o'clock in the morning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-quincey/paint-me-an-eternal-tea-pot-for-i-usually-drink-tea-from-eight-o/)

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> [It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-quincey/it-is-one-of-the-misfortunes-in-life-that-one-must-read-thousands-of/)

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> [As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-quincey/as-is-the-inventor-of-murder-and-the-father-of-art-cain-must-have/)

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> [Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-quincey/surely-everyone-is-aware-of-the-divine-pleasures-which-attend-a/)

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> [Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-quincey/flowers-that-are-so-pathetic-in-their-beauty-frail-as-the-clouds-and/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-quincey/cows-are-amongst-the-gentlest-of-breathing-creatures-none-show-more/)

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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 next comes to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-quincey/if-once-a-man-indulges-himself-in-murder-very-soon-he-comes-to-think/)

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> [For tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities, or are become so from wine-drinking, and are not susceptible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-quincey/for-tea-though-ridiculed-by-those-who-are-naturally-coarse-in-their/)

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> [“the tyranny of the human face”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-quincey/the-tyranny-of-the-human-face/)

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> [Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to have hit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-quincey/allow-me-to-offer-my-congratulations-on-the-truly-admirable-skill-you/)

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