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No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, p.312
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