“I have written with a very confused head from the affects of laudanum.”

— Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey

Letter to Sir James Mackintosh in 1813, excusing a brief letter he had sent him, quoted in Patrick O'Leary, Sir James Mackintosh. The Whig Cicero (Aberdeen University Press, 1989), p. 184.
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