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I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.

Source: Speech, 22 Feb 1842, to the Washingtonian Temperance Society, Springfield, Ill.
-- Abraham Lincoln, (Feb 12 1809-1865), US president, lawyer; He was the 16th U.S. president during the Civil War; wrote Emancipation Proclamation, and Gettysburg Address, 1863.

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