"I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive."

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When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

— John Woolman