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Quote by Edgar Allan Poe
Had the routine of our life at this place been known to the world, we should have been regarded as madmen —; although, perhaps, as madmen of a harmless nature.
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The speaker says that if outsiders had known about their everyday routine, they would probably have judged them insane. The final qualification softens that judgment: whatever seemed strange or extreme about their lives, it was not dangerous. The quote presents an unusual way of living as something that might attract ridicule while causing no harm.
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- The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1
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- Book
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