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Thomas de Quincey has 44 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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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…
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The peace of nature and of the innocent creatures of god seems to be secure and deep, only so long as the…
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Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.
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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…
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Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical.
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Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!
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I stood checked for a moment - awe, not fear, fell upon me - and whist I stood, a solemn wind began…
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Rightly it is said of utter, utter misery, that it 'cannot be remembered'; itself, being a rememberable thing, is swallowed up in…
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All is finite in the present; and even that finite is infinite in it velocity of flight towards death. But in God…
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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…
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Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
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My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.
— Diane Ackerman
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I layer my moisturizers, which makes my complexion so fresh, I can wear less foundation.
— Bobbi Brown
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None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or…
— Marian Anderson
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That morning was when I first began to reappraise the 'white man.' It was when I first began to perceive that 'white…
— Malcolm X
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But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men.
— James Madison
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Would there not be the greatest reason to apprehend, that error in the first sentence would be the parent of error in…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth:…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools…
— George Bernard Shaw
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There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin....
— Frederick Douglass
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There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.
— Audrey Hepburn
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If he says he has the pizzazz and the sizzle, I have the steak, and substance. I've made more money than he's…
— Don King
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