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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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Thou only givest these gifts to man, and thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty opium!
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If a man "whose talk is of oxen" should become an opium-eater, the probability is, that (if he is not too dull to dream at all)—he will dream about oxen.
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Oh! just, subtle, and mighty opium! that to the hearts of poor and rich alike, for the wounds that will never heal, and for "the pangs that tempt the spirit to rebel," bringest an assuaging balm; eloquent opium!
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Born:
August 15, 1785
Died:
December 8, 1859
(aged 74)
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