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Preaching temperance to the poor is useless, as their drinking is itself an effect of prior miseries
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- Jack London American novelist and journalist (1876 to 1916)
It is of no avail to preach temperance and teetotalism to these people. The drink habit may be the cause of many miseries; but it is, in turn, the effect of other and prior miseries.
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↗The People of the Abyss (1903)gutenberg.org
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