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“There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“A higher class, in the estimation and love of this city- building, market-going race of mankind, are the poets, who, from the intellectual kingdom, feed the thought and imagination with ideas and pictures which raise men out of the world of corn and money, and console them for the short-comings of the day, and the meanness of labor and traffic.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)