Thomas De Quincey Quotes
There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.
Citations
De Quincey, Thomas. Letters to a Young Man Whose Education has been Neglected. London Magazine, 1823.
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