Drink a Revised And Enlarged Edition of Drink And Be Sober
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He can't see above his own low level. And he goes his way to the one vice which usually, in modest-spoken society, stands for all the others. It is not my business to discuss sexuality in this book; but the so- cial evil is so kneaded into the alcohol evil in a oneness of vice that they cannot be dis- sociated. Drunkards and prostitutes fall to- gether like a shock of oats. Drink and un- chastity are unholy, inseparable twins. Before I sat down to write these pages to- day, I looked over the mo...rning newspaper; and in the autobiographical article of " Jess " Willard, the prize-fighter (and there is a clean- minded, right-thinking man for you a man sane from the top downwards!), I read these words: "Vice and drunkenness! The two always go together, and wherever they go you'll find sickness and disease and misery. "All this may sound funny from a prize- fighter. But just remember I was a husband WHY SOME ARE DRUNKARDS 113 and a father before I entered the ring. And, because I am champion, I figure that maybe boys will listen to me when they would give anybody else the laugh as a ' sissy.
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