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.
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Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), U.S. president. Speech, February 22, 1842, to the Washingtonian Temperance Society, Springfield, Illinois. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 1, ed. Roy P. Basler (1953).
