Quotation by

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

Morning

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Coleridge is comparing the unpleasant feeling of our bad actions to the strong, lingering smell of herrings and onions the morning after eating them. He suggests that just as the odor is hard to ignore and somewhat regrettable, so too are the consequences of our wrongdoings when we reflect on them later.

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