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The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser. Saturday 22 February 1840.
To smoke opium,
and not to look after the comfort of your parents, is to play the part of an undutiful child. TO smoke opium and to give no heed to the instruction of your son, is not fulfilling your duty as a father; to smokeopium and care not though your wife suffer cold and want, is what no kind husband would do.
If we are overcome by dangers or sickness, we are sad ; if informed that we are about to die, we are sorrowful ; such is thenature of man, and opium smokers offer the only exception. These run after their death; these sit contentedly on the brink of danger – even as the silly moth which keeps fluttering round the candle which consumes him.
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