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Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic. The Blow that should rouse, stuns me.
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Letter to Henry Crabb Robinson (12 March 1811).

 

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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