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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.
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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A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.
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Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated everlasting farewells!
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No man will ever unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude.
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