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Quotation from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

“He found, as so many more have done, that the practice is easier to attain than to get rid of”

Arthur Conan Doyle (spoken by Dr. Watson (narrator))

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Man with the Twisted Lip (Project Gutenberg #1661)

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Watson describes how Isa Whitney, after reading De Quincey, began soaking his tobacco in laudanum and became enslaved to opium.

Citation: "He found, as so many more have done, that the practice is easier to attain than to get rid of" — Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Man with the Twisted Lip (Project Gutenberg #1661). (id the-adventures-of-sherlock-holmes-q5)

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