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 (novelist))

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 (novelist)

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