...to make a pledge of any kind is to declare war against nature; for a pledge
is a chain that is always clanking and reminding the wearer of it that he is
not a free man.
- Following the Equator
Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor into good, but it will improve it.
- More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927
Mark Twain
at Klapproth's Tavern in
Elmira, New York as depicted in ad for Old Crow whiskey.
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