Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny; it hath been The untimely emptying of the happy throne, And fall of many kings. (William Shakespeare)

Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny; it hath been The untimely emptying of the happy throne, And fall of many kings.

William Shakespeare

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