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This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.

Charles Lamb
Night, Other Worlds, Smoking
Letter to Thomas Manning, 26 December 1815, in E. Marrs (ed.) 'The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb' vol. 3 (1978) p. 207
This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.