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Samuel Butler
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it. ✨ Samuel Butler (1951). Notebooks
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it. ✨ Samuel Butler (1951). Notebooks

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