"The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell."

Thomas Jordan Jarvis, American Politician

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"The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell."

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