"Scientific Recreations" (ca. 1893)
"Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things.... nose painting, sleep and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire but takes away the performance." -- Macbeth Act 2, Scene 3
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