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  • And so, what wonder that he who loves not wine, that sober wretch has a lean heart -- a heart like a wrung-out old bluing-bag, and loves not his kind?

    The Confidence-Man 1857

  • And so, what wonder that he who loves not wine, that sober wretch has a lean heart -- a heart like a wrung-out old bluing-bag, and loves not his kind?

    The Confidence-Man Herman Melville 1855

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