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16 THE ADVANTAGES OF DRUNKENNESS.

" Oh ! that men should put an enemy into their mouths to steal away their brains." -Shakspeare.

" All the enemies on the earth do not destroy so many of the human race, nor alienate so much property as drunkenness."-Lord Bacon.

If you wish to be always thirsty, be a drunkard ; for the oftener and more you drink, the oftener and more thirsty you will be.

If you seek to prevent your friends from raising you in the world, be a drunkard ; for that will defeat all their efforts.

If you would effectually counteract your own attempts to do well, be a drunkard ; and you will not be disappointed.

If you wish to repel the endeavours of the whole human race to raise you to character, credit, and prosperity, be a drunkard ; and you will assuredly triumph.

If you are determined to be poor, be a drunkard ; and you will soou be ragged and pennyless.

If you would wish to starve your family, be a drunkard ; for that will consume the means of their support.

If yon would be spunged on by knaves, be a drunkard ; and that will make their task easy.

If you wish to be robbed, be a drunkard ; which will enable the thief to do it with more safety.

If you wish to blunt your senses, be a drunkard ; and you will soon be more stupid than an ass.

If you would become a fool, be a drunkard ; and you will soon lose your understauding.

If you wish to incapacitate yourself for rational intercourse, be a drunkard ; for that will render yon wholly unfit for it.

If you wish all your prospects in life to be clonded, be a drunkard ; and they will be dark enough.

If you would destroy your body, be a drunkard ; as drunkenness is the mother of disease.

If you mean to ruin your soul, be a drunkard ; that you may be excluded from heaven.

If you are resolved on suicide, be a drunkard ; that being a sure mode of destruction.

If you would expose both your folly and secrets, be a drunkard ; and they will soon run out while the liquor runs in.

If you are plagned with great bodily strength, be a drunkard ; and it will soon be subdued by so powerful an antagonist.