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...ours was advised by a physician on the Corporation to take, as the very best tonic, a pint of porter daily at dinner. At the Hall this is forbidden. We would trouble no man's conscience, and while there are among us those brought up in the "most straitest sect of the Puritans," we shall not lack warnings of the danger of opinions such as we have expressed; but we would ask these Rechabites, Is there not as much danger in encouraging a system which makes a glass of beer after dinner something to be frowned at or smiled...
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