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Thomas De Quincy (1785-1859)

Thomas De Quincy  (1785-1859) Thomas de Quincey was an English author and intellectual, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821).

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.