Thomas Jordan Jarvis quotes
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“There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.”
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“We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us”
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“I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal to the people to put an end to the traffic, no matter under what name or guise it may be carried on.”
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“In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution.”
-- Thomas Jordan Jarvis -
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“Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.”
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“The people of one county can not be indifferent to the welfare of the people in another county.”
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“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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Source : "The Parenting Trap" by A. A. Gill, www.vanityfair.com. November 2, 2012.
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“But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.”
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Source : "Fame and Fingernails as a TV Mobster's Wife". Interview with Robin Finn, www.nytimes.com. April 24, 2001.
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1987). “Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear”, p.23, Moody Publishers
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Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation
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