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Men who have no training higher than that of brutes may be expected to make brutes of themselves when they drink. The time has been - and that not ages ago - when he was considered the best fellow who could get the fullest. But in a community devoted to education and refinement, such sottishness cannot be of long duration. In no community will a man who looses respect for himself so speedily lose all respect from his fellows and fall so completely from caste. He may continue to be recognized by the men with whom he associates day by day, but unless he reforms his habits, unless he makes more of a gentleman of himself, he cannot hope any longer to be counted among the society of gentlemen. - [Tracts for the Hour from the Yale News.

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