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golf. An industrious person always has enough for himself, and does not drive the poor from his door without alms. On the other hand, we see the indolent person emerg from the tenpins Alley, or some other place erect for idlers his home is a place of abhorrence. If we could see into his face it would make us recoil back with horror for in it we see dispair, lacivious, & pictured in his [illegible] All persons must have something for to divert thair minds, and if we are dilatory our minds are led into wicked ways, to optain a living such as gambling, stealing and other vice, Some people that are indolent after they get down to the lowest stage of life and degradation think that they must lay down to die, and some that have been drinking charactors (as most all indolent persons are) will drink the inoxication beverage to destroy thiair sorrow, if they
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golf. An industrious person always has enough for himself, and does not drive the poor from his door without alms. On the other hand, we see the indolent person emerg from the tenpins Alley, or some other place erect for idlers his home is a place of abhorrence. If we could see into his face it would make us recoil back with horror for in it we see dispair, lacivious, & pictured in his [illegible] All persons must have something for to divert thair minds, and if we are dilatory our minds are led into wicked ways, to optain a living such as gambling, stealing and other vice, Some people that are indolent after they get down to the lowest stage of life and degradation think that they must lay down to die, and some that have been drinking charactors (as most all indolent persons are) will drink the inoxication beverage to destroy thiair sorrow, if they
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