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Quotation from The Life of Friedrich Schiller by Thomas Carlyle
“the pernicious expedient of stimulants, which yield a momentary strength, only to waste our remaining fund of it more speedily and surely”
The Life of Friedrich Schiller, Part III (mode of life at Jena) (Project Gutenberg #23209 (Library Edition))
Carlyle introduces the account of Schiller writing through the night with coffee, wine-chocolate, Rhenish or Champagne at his desk.
Citation: "the pernicious expedient of stimulants, which yield a momentary strength, only to waste our remaining fund of it more speedily and surely" — Thomas Carlyle, The Life of Friedrich Schiller, Part III (mode of life at Jena) (Project Gutenberg #23209 (Library Edition)). (id life-of-friedrich-schiller-q5)
