"Alas! that ever Praise should have been what praise has been to me The opiate of the mind !"

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PhrasesKarl Marx
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill (or The Two Brides) (1838), Vol II, Chapter 21, adapted from her own:- 'Alas! that ever Praise should have been what it has been to me ! The opiate of my heart, which has annulled The happiness that sought but for itself.' in 'Poetical Fragment, Fifth Series' in The London Literary Gazette, 17th December 1825.