On the approach of spring I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.
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Vol. i. p. 116.Edward Gibbon
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Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.
Edward Gibbon
My dreams — even they're not as populous as they should be.
They hold more solitude than noisy crowds.Wislawa Szymborska
Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals corrupted.
Jane Austen
We are free to withdraw (to withdraw our minds where we cannot withdraw our bodies) from situations in which our humanity or lack of it is defined for us.
Saul Bellow
Our All is at Stake, and the little Conveniencys and Comforts of Life, when set in Competition with our Liberty, ought to be rejected not with Reluctance but with Pleasure.
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