Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great
an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain
from total abstinence itself.
- autograph inscription in album to Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes, reported in The
Washington Post, June 11, 1881
Mark Twain
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