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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

By: Thomas de Quincey

... Secondly, that it is rather dear, which also I grant, for in my time East Indian opium has been three guineas a pound, and Turkey 42 Confessions of ... ...h Weld the traveller lay and listened, in Canada, to the sweet laughter of Indian women; for the less you understand of a language, the more sensible ... ...more so than Marinus in his Life of Proclus, or many other biographers and autobiographers of fair reputation. This pleasure, I have said, was to be h...

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