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Rh knowing how, be a drunkard; and it will vanish insensibly.

If you would have no other resource when past labour but a workhouse, be a drunkard; and you will be unable to provide any.

If you are determined to expel all domestic harmony from your house, be a drunkard; and discord, with all her train, will soon enter.

If you would be always under strong suspicion, be a drunkard; for, little as you think it, all agree that thosothose [sic] who steal from themselves and families will rob others.

If you would be reduced to the necessity of shunning your creditors, be a drunkard; and you will soon have reason to prefer the bye paths to the public streets.

If you like the amusements of a court of conscience, be a drunkard; and you may be often gratified.

If you would be a dead weight to the community, and “cumber the ground” be a drunkard; for that will render you houseless, helpless, burdensome, and expensive.

If you would be a nuisance, be a drunkard; for the reproach of a drunkard is like that of a dung-hill.

If would be odious to your family and friends, be a drunkard; and you will soon be more than disagreeable.

If you would be a pest to society, be a drunkard and you will be avoided as infectious.

If you dread reformation of your faults, be a drunkard; and you will bobe [sic] impervious to all admonition.

If you would smash windows, break the peace, get your bones broken, tumble under carts and