She admonished me, too, against liquor-drinking, and whatever capacity
for endurance I have at present, and whatever usefulness I may have
attained through life, I attribute to having complied with her pious and
correct wishes. When I was seven years of age she asked me not to drink,
and then I made a resolution of total abstinence; and that I have
adhered to it through all time I owe to my mother
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