The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the …

Abraham Lincoln
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The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity? ✨ Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings, p.49, Stanford University Press
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