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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 36
AUTHOR: Abraham Lincoln (1809–65)
QUOTATION: 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.
ATTRIBUTION: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, address before the Springfield [Illinois] Washingtonian Temperance Society, February 22, 1842.—The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler, vol. 1, p. 278 (1953).
SUBJECTS: Alcohol