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Quotation from The Life of Friedrich Schiller by Thomas Carlyle

“whole cargoes of hellebore have been expended,--in vain”

Thomas Carlyle (spoken by Thomas Carlyle, paraphrasing Schiller's preface to The Robbers)

The Life of Friedrich Schiller, Part I (The Robbers) (Project Gutenberg #23209 (Library Edition))

Carlyle reports Schiller's claim that ridicule had failed to cure the age's wickedness and that sharper medicine was needed.

Citation: "whole cargoes of hellebore have been expended,--in vain" — Thomas Carlyle, The Life of Friedrich Schiller, Part I (The Robbers) (Project Gutenberg #23209 (Library Edition)). (id life-of-friedrich-schiller-q3)

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