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If I see one fond of fine clothes, fine furniture, fine equipages, all above his fortune, for which he contracts debts, and ends his career in prison: Alas ! says I, he has paid dear, very dear for his whistle.

When I see a beautiful sweet tempered girl married to an ill-natured husband: What a pity it is, says I, that she has paid so much for a whistle!

In short, I conceived that great part of the miseries of mankind were brought upon them by the false estimates they had made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistle.

THE ADVANTAGES OF DRUNKENNESS.

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“Oh ! that men should put an enemy into their mouths to steal away their brains."

Shakspeare.

"All the enemies on the earth do not destroy so many of the human race, nor alienate so much property as drunkenness."

Lord Bacon.

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If you wish to be always thirsty, be a drunkard; for the oftner and more you drink, the oftner and more thirsty you will be.

If you seek to prevent your friends from raising you in the world, be a drunkard; for that will defeat all their efforts.