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All excess is ill but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.

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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
Author
Entrepreneur
Philosopher
Politician
Theologian
London
England
William Penn
Excess
Secrets
Lascivious
Health
Quarrelsome
Dangerous
Impudent
Worst
Spoils
Sort
Drunkenness
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Spoil
Men
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