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 huge, those of more lissome build. Whatever their physical constitution, yours be it to maintain the existence of the soul and the imagination in them. You will find that though there be many dreams in a flagon of, they are not of the stuff that common dreams are made on, and that you can interpret them or let them slip past you into thin air, according as you house your liquor well or ill. Place it in squalid tenements and among bare surroundings, and it will speak squalor and breathe base thoughts and low ideas. But place it in the palace that is its due, and the world shall find that when you go down into the bowels of the parish for a bottle, you bring up far more than a mere quantum of drink.

For the rest, let one simple