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Thomas De Quincey

Born on August 15, 1785

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Thomas Penson De Quincey (né Thomas Penson Quincey; 15 August 1785 – 8 December 1859) was an English writer, essayist, and literary critic, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821).

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