Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

"I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and health and fortune and friends."

Edgar Allan Poe Life
Poet Critic American 1809–1849

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