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Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes.
Thomas de Quincey
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Thomas de Quincey
Age: 74 †
Born: 1785
Born: August 15
Died: 1859
Died: December 8
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here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat-pocket portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint-bottle and peace of mind could be sent down by the mail.
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Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.
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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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Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated everlasting farewells!
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