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Best On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts Quotes by Thomas De Quincey
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts Quotes
“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.
Once begun upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of at the time.”
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
“People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed – a knife – a purse – and a dark lane. Design, gentlemen, grouping, light and shade, poetry, sentiment, are now deemed indispensable to attempts of this nature.”
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
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