Carriages Quote by Thomas de Quincey

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

Thomas de Quincey

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“A long, loud, and canorous peal of laughter.”

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Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated everlasting farewells!

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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 of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God only by them - when suddenly the voice of Christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the…

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I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the carriage door. We shall return to the house." Beth smiled up at Christian. "Shall we adjourn to the house to get some ointment for your hands and a bath, my love?" His eyes lit. "A bath?"…

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Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron frame of the hearth, the black cooking pots and pans and stoves. Was it a mourning? Was it protective coloration? Was it mere depression of the senses? No matter what the original color of the paleotechnic…

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Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact?" Will demanded with mock horror. "Clearly I have been doing something wrong. Or not…

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On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was walking on…

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A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can’t see--that’s my idea of happiness.

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But we were talking about me and my problems." Sophronia looked Monique up and down gravely. "I don't think we're going to solve those…

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Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distinct episode; and as sentences should follow…

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A woman of haughty and fierce carriage, of a nimble wit and active spirit, a very voluble tongue, more bold than a man.

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He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.

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Ma'am," Magnus said, advancing. "I must counsel you not to exit the carriage while a demon-slaying is in progress.

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