If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to.
If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to.
Through those old Grounds of memory,
The sauntering alone
Is a divine intemperance
A prudent man would shun.
A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.
Boundless intemperance
In nature is a tyranny; it hath been
The untimely emptying of the happy throne,
And fall of many kings.
They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them improvidence and intemperance and evasion -- not laziness evasion of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.
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