Quote#Heart
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and…
Quote byAbraham Lincoln · 1809–1865
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Address to the Springfield Washingtonian Temperance Society (22 February 1842), quoted at greater length in John Carroll Power (1889) Abraham Lincoln: His Life, Public Services, Death and Funeral Cortege.
English (original)
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
— Abraham Lincoln
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