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... seems that this malady of their heels operates on these sound - headed and honest - hearted creatures very much like the cork leg in the comic song did on its owner : which , when he had once got started on it , the more he tried to ...
... seems that this malady of their heels operates on these sound - headed and honest - hearted creatures very much like the cork leg in the comic song did on its owner : which , when he had once got started on it , the more he tried to ...
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... seems to me it was not . Too much de- nunciation against dram - sellers and dram - drinkers was in- dulged in . This I think was both impolitic and unjust . It was impolitic , because it is not much in the nature of man to be driven to ...
... seems to me it was not . Too much de- nunciation against dram - sellers and dram - drinkers was in- dulged in . This I think was both impolitic and unjust . It was impolitic , because it is not much in the nature of man to be driven to ...
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... him than to penetrate the hard shell of a tortoise with a rye straw . Such is man , and so must he be understood by those who would lead him , even to his own best interests . Another error , as it seems to me , into 85 OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
... him than to penetrate the hard shell of a tortoise with a rye straw . Such is man , and so must he be understood by those who would lead him , even to his own best interests . Another error , as it seems to me , into 85 OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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Abraham Lincoln Mary Maclean. Another error , as it seems to me , into which the old reform- ers fell , was the position that all habitual drunkards were utterly incorrigible , and therefore must be turned adrift and damned without ...
Abraham Lincoln Mary Maclean. Another error , as it seems to me , into which the old reform- ers fell , was the position that all habitual drunkards were utterly incorrigible , and therefore must be turned adrift and damned without ...
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... seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm - blooded to fall into this vice - the demon of intemper- ance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity . What one of us but can call to ...
... seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm - blooded to fall into this vice - the demon of intemper- ance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity . What one of us but can call to ...
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