"He was, indeed, in a condition, in which, if reason had interposed, though only to advise, she might have received the answer which one Cleostratus gave many years ago to a silly fellow, who asked him, if he was not ashamed to be drunk? "Are not you," said Cleostratus, "ashamed to admonish a drunken man?" β To say the truth, in a court of justice drunkenness must not be an excuse, yet in a court of conscience it is greatly so."
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