Thomas De Quincey Quote

Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them.


De Quincey's Writings (ed. 1851)


Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance...

Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance...

Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance...

Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance...