The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell. (Thomas Jordan Jarvis)

The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.

Thomas Jordan Jarvis

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