Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult. ✨ In Wil…

Samuel Johnson
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Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult. ✨ In William Roberts (ed.) 'Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs Hannah More' (1834) vol. 1, p. 251
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