Christopher Smith
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315 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Christopher Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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All the world acknowledged that heroism.
Can you not deny yourself the insignificant indulgences for the good of others?
Be not allured by the fact that you drink only the moderate beverages.
You take only ale, water.
And a man has to drink a large amount of it to become intoxicated.
Yes, but there is not in all the city today an inebriate that did not begin with ale.
Triple X.
What does that mark mean?
Triple X on the beer barrel, triple X on the brewer's dray, triple X on the door of the gin shop, triple X on the side of the bottle.
Not being able to find anyone who could tell me what this mark means, I have had to guess that the whole thing was an allegory.
X, that is, thirty heartbreaks, thirty agonies, thirty desolated homes, thirty chances for a drunkard's grave, thirty ways to perdition.
Triple X.
If I were going to write a story, the first chapter would be Triple X, the last a pawnbroker's shop.
Be watchful.
At this season all the allurements to dissipation will be especially busy.
Let not your flight to hell be in the winter.
I also remark that the winter evenings through their very length allow great swing for indulgences.
Few young men would have the taste to go to their room at seven o'clock and sit until eleven, reading Motley's Dutch Republic or John Foster's Essays.
The young men who have been confined to the store all day want fresh air and sightseeing, and they must go somewhere.
The most of them have of a winter's evening three or four hours of leisure.
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