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The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the

The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly. – George Borrow

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If you must commit suicide… always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of. – George Borrow

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The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers. – Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour

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It is easy to quit; I have quit at least a hundred times. – Author Unknown

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Tio stepped to the counter and bought a little black cigar that was strong enough to do push-ups. – James Street (1903–1954), “The Grains of Paradise”

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