O you time-wasting, brain-starving young men, who can never be at ease unless you have a cigar or a plug of tobacco in your mouths, go on with your puffing and champing - go on with your filthy smoking, and your still more filthy spitting, keeping the cleanly housewives in constant terror for their nicely waxed floors, and their shining carpets - go on I say; but remember, it was not in this way that our little Ben became the GREAT DR. FRANKLIN.
- Parson Weems, 1817
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