In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.
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It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.
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If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
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Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
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Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.
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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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