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"Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1722
"There is nothing so absurd, so surfeiting, so ridiculous as a Man heated by Wine in his Head, and a wicked Gust in his Inclination together; he is in the possession of two Devils at once, and can no more govern himself by his Reason than a Mill can Grind without Water."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)