item: #1 of 8
          id: 13365
      author: Runciman, James
       title: The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions; Or, Joints In Our Social Armour
        date: None
       words: 99277
      flesch: 69
     summary: This contemptible cynic told with glee stories of his own vileness which made good men look at him with scorn; but he fancied himself the cleverest of men. I allow that many great men have been sensual fools, but we can by no means allow that folly and sensuality are inseparable from greatness.
    keywords: able; action; admirable; affair; aged; agony; aid; air; airs; alcohol; animal; answer; appearance; apt; army; attitude; average; away; awful; babble; bad; bar; battle; beat; beautiful; beauty; beginning; beings; belief; best; better; betting; big; birds; black; blind; blood; board; boats; body; bones; bookmakers; books; boy; boys; brain; brave; break; breath; breed; brief; bright; brilliant; britain; british; broad; broken; brother; brotherhood; brown; brute; burns; burst; business; busy; calls; care; carlyle; case; cast; cat; causes; certain; chance; changes; character; charge; charming; chief; children; christmas; circle; citizen; city; class; classes; clear; clever; close; clothes; cloud; club; coat; cold; comfortable; coming; common; community; company; concerned; conduct; content; conversation; cool; corruption; country; course; crash; creatures; crew; cries; crime; critic; cross; crowd; cruel; cry; cunning; cure; curious; cut; daily; dandies; dandy; dark; darkness; dawn; day; days; dead; deadly; deal; dear; death; deck; declare; deep; definite; degradation; degraded; delight; delightful; description; desire; despair; devoted; different; dim; discipline; disease; dog; dogs; doom; doomed; doubt; drawing; dreadful; dreams; dreary; dress; drink; drinking; drop; dry; dull; dupes; duty; dying; early; earth; easy; ecstasy; effect; effort; end; enemy; england; english; englishmen; equality; eternity; europe; evening; evil; excitement; exercise; existence; experience; exquisite; eyes; face; fact; faint; fair; faith; fall; family; fancy; far; fare; fashion; fast; fate; father; fault; favourite; fear; feeling; feet; fellows; felt; field; fierce; fighting; figures; fine; finest; fire; fit; flash; flower; fly; folk; follow; folly; foolish; fools; force; form; fortune; foul; fox; france; frantic; fraternity; free; freedom; fresh; friends; friendship; fun; function; future; gain; gallant; gallop; gambling; game; gay; gaze; general; genius; gentlemen; gentry; genuine; george; ghastly; girls; glad; glorious; god; good; good company; good man; grass; great; great men; greatest; green; grim; guide; gulf; habit; hair; half; hand; happy; hard; hare; harmless; head; health; heart; heaven; heavy; help; hero; hideous; high; higher; hills; history; hold; holiday; home; honest; honour; hope; hopeless; horizon; horror; horse; host; hour; houses; huge; human; humanity; humour; hundreds; hunger; idea; idleness; ill; imagination; immense; important; individual; inevitable; influence; information; innocent; instant; instinct; intellect; interest; iron; jack; jockey; jollity; joy; joyous; justice; keen; kind; kindly; kindness; know; knowledge; labour; ladies; lads; lady; lake; lane; language; large; laughter; law; laws; lead; learning; leave; left; level; liberty; life; lights; like; likely; limbs; literary; literature; little; lives; living; london; long; longer; look; lord; lost; love; lovely; low; luck; mad; main; making; man; manhood; manliness; manly; manner; march; mark; marvellous; matter; meaning; means; measure; meet; meeting; melancholy; memoirs; memories; memory; men; mental; mere; merriment; merry; middle; midst; midsummer; mighty; miles; millions; mind; minded; minute; mischief; miserable; misery; mob; modern; moment; money; months; moon; moral; morality; morning; mother; movement; moving; muscles; music; mysterious; mystic; names; nation; national; nature; near; need; neighbour; nerves; net; new; nice; night; noble; notes; number; object; observer; ocean; odds; odious; officer; old; onward; open; order; ordinary; owner; particular; pass; passing; past; peculiar; people; perfect; persons; pet; pets; philosopher; phrases; physical; picture; pity; place; plain; play; pleasant; pleased; pleasing; pleasure; poet; poetry; point; poison; poor; poor little; possible; pounds; power; powerful; praise; precious; presence; present; pretty; prey; private; problem; process; procession; professional; proper; public; pure; pursuit; quarter; queer; question; quiet; race; racecourse; racing; rank; rate; ready; real; reason; red; refined; refinement; regard; remains; respect; rest; results; return; rich; ring; rise; risk; roads; rolling; room; rose; rough; round; royal; ruin; run; runciman; rush; russia; sad; safe; sage; sailor; savage; saying; scenes; school; science; scientific; scores; sea; seamen; second; secret; self; selfishness; sense; servant; set; sets; shadows; sham; sharp; shelley; ship; shoot; shore; shudder; sign; silence; silly; simple; single; sir; skill; skin; sky; slang; sleep; slow; small; smile; snow; social; society; soft; soldiers; solemn; solid; song; sordid; sort; soul; space; speaking; species; spectacle; speed; spirit; spite; splendid; splendour; sporting; sportsman; spread; spring; stable; stand; start; state; steady; steamer; step; stock; stone; stories; story; strange; street; strength; strong; struggles; study; style; subject; subtle; success; sudden; suffering; sun; superb; supposing; supreme; surface; sweet; swift; sympathy; talk; terms; terrible; terror; thieves; things; think; thinking; thought; thousands; thud; time; tiny; toil; tongue; torture; touch; town; trade; training; trees; tremendous; trouble; true; truth; turf; turn; ugly; unhappy; universal; unknown; use; useful; useless; utter; vague; vast; vessel; vice; victim; vile; vision; vulgar; walking; want; war; wars; waste; watch; water; waves; way; ways; weak; weakness; weather; week; west; white; wicked; wide; wife; wild; wind; wine; winter; wisdom; wise; wish; wit; women; wonder; wood; words; work; working; world; worship; worst; worth; wounded; wretched; writer; wrong; year; young; young men; youth
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        item: #2 of 8
          id: 28576
      author: Blythe, Samuel G. (Samuel George)
       title: Cutting It Out How to get on the waterwagon and stay there
        date: None
       words: 5873
      flesch: 83
     summary: I am no example for other men who drink as much as I did, or more, or less--but I assume my experiences are somewhat typical, for I am sure my drinking was very typical; and a recital of those experiences and the conclusions thereon is what is before the house. That is the reason drinking liquor gets so many people--either by wrecking their health or by fastening on them the habit they cannot stop.
    keywords: alcohol; better; business; care; chapter; company; day; dinner; drinking; drinks; example; fat; fool; friends; fun; good; habit; harm; life; like; liquor; lot; man; men; mode; new; people; person; personal; quit; round; stage; sure; things; time; water; waterwagon; way; work; world; years
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        item: #3 of 8
          id: 35270
      author: Towns, Charles Barnes
       title: Habits that Handicap: The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy
        date: None
       words: 58159
      flesch: 56
     summary: Mr. Towns's plans for legislative control of drug habits also seem to me wise and far-reaching. Until legislation forced the victims of drug habits by hundreds into Bellevue Hospital in New York, this great institution rarely had one as a patient.
    keywords: able; action; acute; addicted; addiction; administration; advantage; alcohol; alcoholic; alcoholic habit; apparent; attempt; attention; attitude; average; bad; beginning; best; better; bill; body; book; boy; boys; brain; business; care; careful; cases; cause; cells; cent; certain; change; chapter; character; chief; children; chinese; chronic; cigarettes; class; cocaine; colonization; comfortable; common; community; complete; condition; confidence; contact; control; cost; country; course; court; craving; criminal; curable; cure; daily; dangerous; day; days; dealing; definite; definite medical; delirium; demand; deprivation; desire; deterioration; diagnosis; different; difficult; discomfort; disease; doctor; dosage; doses; drink; drinking; drug addiction; drug habit; drug victims; druggist; drugs; drunkard; drunkenness; easy; effect; effective; effort; entire; evil; excessive; excuse; experience; extent; extreme; fact; family; financial; food; form; free; friends; general; good; great; greater; greatest; habits; habitual; habitual drug; half; hand; harmful; health; help; heroin; histories; history; home; hopeless; hospital; human; hypodermic; illness; important; increase; incurable; individual; indulgence; influence; injury; insane; insanity; instances; institution; instrument; intelligent; investigation; judgment; kind; knowledge; known; lack; large; law; legislation; life; likely; little; liver; long; loss; magistrate; man; matter; means; medical; medical profession; medical treatment; medicine; mental; mere; methods; mind; moderate; moment; money; moral; morphine; narcotic; natural; nature; necessary; necessity; need; nervous; new; new york; non; normal; number; nurse; old; opiate; opium; opportunity; order; pain; patient; pay; people; peril; period; person; physical; physician; physiological; place; point; possible; power; practice; preparations; prescription; presence; present; prison; private; problem; process; processes; profession; proper; proportion; psychological; psychology; public; punishment; purpose; quantities; quantity; question; real; reason; reduction; reform; regard; relation; relief; responsibility; responsible; restrictive; result; rich; sale; sanatorium; save; self; sense; short; shows; sick; similar; sleep; small; smoke; smokers; smoking; social; society; special; state; statement; stay; step; stimulants; stimulation; stop; strong; study; subject; successful; suffering; sufficient; sure; sympathy; symptoms; system; taker; taking; things; thought; thousands; time; tissue; tobacco; tobacco habit; tolerance; treatment; true; type; unable; united; use; users; value; vice; victims; way; wish; women; work; world; worse; years; york
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        item: #4 of 8
          id: 41139
      author: Thorne, Guy
       title: The Drunkard
        date: None
       words: 124351
      flesch: 86
     summary: He had known men, friends of his own, go down, down, down, through drink. Our local celebrity, Medley continued, Mr. Gilbert Lothian, the poet.
    keywords: absolute; action; admiral; affected; afraid; afternoon; air; alcohol; alcoholism; amari; amberley; america; angry; answer; anxious; appeal; arm; arms; artist; attention; attitude; author; aware; bad; bar; beautiful; beauty; bed; bedroom; beer; beginning; believe; bell; best; big; bird; bishop; bitter; black; blanche; blood; blue; body; book; bore; bottle; bowl; box; boy; brain; breakfast; bright; brighton; brilliant; broken; brother; brown; building; business; cab; calling; calm; candle; capable; care; carpet; case; celebrated; cell; centre; certain; chair; chamber; champagne; change; chapter; charming; cheeks; child; children; christian; church; cigarette; clear; clergyman; clever; closed; closing; clothes; club; coat; cold; colour; coloured; come; comfort; comfortable; common; company; complete; confidences; confidential; conscious; consciousness; considerable; content; continued; control; conversation; cook; cool; corner; country; couple; course; cross; cunning; cupboard; cupid; curious; cut; daly; dance; dark; darling; daughter; dawn; day; days; dead; deal; dear; death; decent; deep; definite; delicate; delightful; desire; dicker; dickson; different; difficult; dine; dining; dinner; disease; disgust; doctor; dog; door; doubt; dozen; drawing; dreadful; dream; dressed; dressing; drink; drinking; drive; drunkard; drunken; dull; duty; eager; early; easy; edward; effect; ego; electric; england; english; entire; envy; ethel; evening; evil; excited; excitement; experience; expression; extraordinary; eyes; face; fact; faint; fair; fall; false; familiar; famous; fantastic; far; fashion; fast; father; fear; feeling; feet; fellow; felt; figure; fine; fingers; fire; firm; flame; flat; floor; flowers; flushed; fool; footsteps; form; free; fresh; friend; friendship; frightened; garden; gas; gate; general; generous; genius; gentleman; genuine; george; gilbert; gilbert lothian; gillie; girl; glad; glance; glass; glow; god; gold; good; good man; grace; great; greater; green; grey; guard; gun; habit; hackney; half; hall; hancock; hand; happy; hard; harrison; hat; hate; head; health; heart; heaven; heavy; help; helzephron; herbert; hidden; high; hint; hold; holy; home; hope; horrible; horror; host; hot; hotel; hour; house; housemaid; huge; human; humour; hung; hurried; husband; idea; important; impulse; inebriate; inebriety; influence; ingworth; instance; instant; instinct; intellect; interest; interesting; intimate; italian; james; jesus; john; joseph; joy; julia; keen; kensington; keys; kind; kindly; kitchen; knife; know; knowing; knowledge; lady; lamp; landlord; large; late; laugh; lay; leant; leather; leave; left; length; letter; library; life; lights; like; line; lips; literary; literature; little; little man; live; living; london; long; longer; longing; look; looking; lord; lost; lothian; loud; lounge; love; lovely; low; lunch; lying; magic; making; man; manner; mantel; marked; married; marshes; mary; mary lothian; master; mean; medical; medley; meeting; memory; mental; mere; milk; mind; minor; minutes; miss; mistress; modern; moment; momentary; money; months; moon; morning; morrow; mortland; morton; morton sims; motor; moultrie; movement; moving; mrs; murderer; muriel; music; natural; nature; near; nearer; necessary; need; nerves; nervous; new; nice; night; noble; noise; norfolk; normal; north; note; novelist; number; o'clock; o'donnell; office; old; ones; open; order; ordered; ordinary; outside; oxford; page; pain; pale; paper; party; passage; passing; passion; past; patient; people; perfect; period; person; personality; phoebe; photograph; physical; piano; pictures; pity; place; play; pleasant; pleased; pleasure; pocket; podley; poems; poet; point; pointed; poor; popular; position; possible; post; pounds; power; prayer; present; pretty; pride; priest; prince; prison; private; progress; psychology; public; pure; purple; putting; question; quick; quiet; rare; rate; reading; ready; real; reason; rector; red; relief; religious; remembered; rich; ring; rita; ritual; road; roof; room; rose; round; royal; run; sad; sake; save; saw; scene; school; science; scientific; seat; second; secret; self; sense; servants; set; shadow; shame; sharp; shillings; shooting; shot; sick; sigh; sign; silence; silent; silly; silver; simple; sims; sincere; single; sir; sister; sitting; sky; sleep; sleeping; slight; slightest; slim; small; smile; smoking; sober; society; soda; soft; solicitor; sorry; sort; soul; space; speaking; special; spirit; splendid; spoke; square; standing; state; stately; statement; station; stay; steady; steps; stone; story; strange; street; strong; study; subtle; success; sudden; suit; summer; sun; sunlight; supreme; surface; surgit; surprise; suspicion; sweet; sympathetic; table; talk; talking; tall; taste; temperament; temperance; terrible; thank; theatre; thick; thing; thought; throat; till; time; tiny; tired; toftrees; torture; touch; town; tray; trembling; trouble; true; trust; truth; tumpany; turn; type; unable; understanding; upper; usual; value; view; village; vision; voice; waiting; walk; wallace; walls; want; warm; watch; water; way; ways; weeks; welcome; west; whiskey; white; wicked; wide; wife; wild; william; window; wine; winter; wise; wish; wog; woman; wonderful; wood; wordingham; words; work; working; world; wrong; yard; years; young; young man; younger; youth
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        item: #5 of 8
          id: 42435
      author: Cook, Joseph
       title: Alcohol and the Human Brain
        date: None
       words: 6838
      flesch: 73
     summary: If you will fasten your attention on the single fact, that alcohol hardens this albuminous substance with which I place it in contact, you will have in that single strategic circumstance an explanation of most of its ravages upon the blood and nerves and brain. But brain is the organ of the mind.
    keywords: 12mo; abstinence; action; affinity; albuminous; alcohol; beer; blood; boat; body; brain; circulation; crew; day; discs; disease; drinking; drunkard; effect; egg; fact; fluid; glass; great; habit; health; heart; human; identity; judgment; large; life; like; local; man; mass; matter; men; mind; moderate; moral; nerves; nervous; new; organ; pages; particles; parts; physical; physicians; point; reason; red; richardson; right; scars; science; scientific; self; sense; ship; shot; small; society; street; substance; system; temperance; total; use; water; white; years
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        item: #6 of 8
          id: 43480
      author: Parton, James
       title: Smoking and Drinking
        date: None
       words: 38779
      flesch: 67
     summary: Many men, too, risked capture in seeking what smokers call a little fire. About eleven, three or four other young men came in, to whom cigars were furnished by the military chieftain.
    keywords: able; abstinence; absurd; accustomed; age; aid; air; albert; alcohol; alcoholic; alive; allowance; america; appearance; assistance; asylum; bad; bar; beaumont; beer; best; better; binghamton; black; blood; boat; body; book; boston; bottle; boy; brain; brandy; building; business; capable; carrier; carrying; case; cents; certain; chance; children; church; cigars; civilization; clear; clergyman; cold; college; coming; community; complete; condition; conscious; consumption; control; conversation; cost; course; craving; cure; daily; day; days; desire; destruction; difficult; digestion; dinner; disease; doctors; dogs; dollars; drink; drinkers; drinking; drunkard; drunken; effects; effort; enemy; england; english; evening; example; excellent; excess; experience; experiments; eye; fact; family; father; fine; fire; food; force; franklin; friend; future; general; gentlemen; glass; good; great; habit; half; hand; happy; hard; head; health; heart; heavy; help; high; hod; home; hope; hours; house; human; husband; important; individual; inebriate; inmates; institution; intelligent; interesting; jack; john; kind; knowledge; known; labor; ladies; lady; large; late; law; life; like; liquor; little; lives; living; london; long; look; man; manner; matter; means; medical; men; mere; miles; millions; mind; minutes; moment; money; months; morbid; morning; natural; nature; necessary; need; new; number; o'clock; object; office; old; open; operation; opinion; parker; past; patient; pay; people; pernicious; persons; physical; physicians; pipe; place; pleasure; point; poison; poor; possible; power; practice; presence; present; proper; public; pure; purpose; quantity; question; race; reader; reading; real; reason; regard; rest; right; room; school; science; self; sense; set; short; similar; simple; sleep; small; smoke; smokers; smoking; society; soldier; state; steam; stimulant; stomach; stop; street; strength; strong; struggle; students; subject; substance; superintendent; surplus; system; teetotalers; temperance; temptation; testimony; thing; thought; till; time; tobacco; town; treatment; true; trustees; truth; united; universal; use; usual; view; war; water; watts; way; weed; weeks; whiskey; wife; wine; women; words; work; world; worst; wrong; yale; years; york; young; young man
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        item: #7 of 8
          id: 54195
      author: Alger, Horatio, Jr.
       title: Grit; or, The Young Boatman of Pine Point
        date: None
       words: 53279
      flesch: 90
     summary: Can't you thank Mr. Grit? Good afternoon, Mr. Grit.
    keywords: able; account; advice; afraid; afternoon; answer; anxious; ask; bad; baker; bank; best; better; boat; boatman; bonds; boston; boy; boys; brandon; breakfast; business; care; carver; cents; chance; chapter; chester; circumstances; city; colonel; continued; cottage; course; courtney; cousin; daniel; day; days; deal; dollars; door; doubt; drink; ephraim; eyes; face; family; favor; feet; floor; fred; friend; gentleman; glad; going; good; graves; great; grit; half; hand; hard; hat; help; hero; home; hope; hotel; hour; house; husband; important; interest; jackson; jesse; johnson; kind; lady; leave; life; likely; little; living; long; look; looking; lost; man; manner; marion; matter; mean; men; messenger; mind; money; morning; morris; mother; mrs; need; new; o'clock; offer; old; open; package; parcel; passengers; pay; person; phil; pine; place; plan; pleasure; pocket; point; poor; portland; portville; position; possible; presence; present; president; pretty; question; quiet; ready; return; right; river; room; round; row; saw; seat; set; sir; small; smile; stepfather; stranger; street; strong; suit; sum; supper; sure; surprise; talk; tavern; thing; thought; time; tone; townsend; train; travers; trouble; true; water; way; weaver; week; welcome; wife; willie; willing; wonder; word; work; years; young
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        item: #8 of 8
          id: 6752
      author: None
       title: Study and Stimulants Or, the Use of Intoxicants and Narcotics in Relation to Intellectual Life, as Illustrated by Personal Communications on the Subject, from Men of Letters and of Science
        date: None
       words: 38716
      flesch: 70
     summary: For about eleven years of the hardest-working period of my life, that in which I produced my large treatises on Physiology, edited the Medical Quarterly Review, and did a great deal of other literary work, besides lecturing, I was practically a total abstainer, though I never took any pledge. When a man allows himself to become a glutton in the matter of smoking tobacco, he suffers for it; and if he becomes a glutton in the matter of eating meat, he just as certainly suffers in another way.
    keywords: abbe; able; abstainer; abstinence; abuse; accustomed; action; activity; advantage; advice; age; air; alcohol; alcoholic; answer; april; artificial; bad; bed; beer; beneficial; benefit; best; better; bodily; body; bottle; brain; brandy; breakfast; care; carpenter; case; certain; cigar; circumstances; claret; coffee; cold; college; condition; constitution; consumption; continued; country; course; cup; daily; dangerous; day; days; deal; degree; diet; difficult; digestion; dinner; disease; doses; doubt; drink; drinking; early; edward; effect; effort; end; english; enquiry; essential; evening; evidence; evil; excess; excessive; excitement; exercise; exertion; exhaustion; experience; f. r.; fact; faculties; fear; february; feeling; food; footnote; force; form; french; fresh; friends; general; genius; george; glass; glasses; good; great; greater; greatest; habit; half; hand; hard; harm; head; health; help; henry; hours; human; indulged; indulgence; influence; injurious; intellectual; intellectual work; interest; intervals; james; john; judge; jules; kind; known; labour; large; late; learned; life; like; liquors; literary; little; lives; london; long; man; march; mark; martineau; matter; meals; medical; medicine; mei; memory; mental; mental work; mind; moderate; moderation; moigno; moment; morning; narcotics; natural; nature; necessary; necessity; need; nerves; nervous; new; night; non; number; old; opinion; people; perfect; period; personal; persons; physical; pipe; place; pleasure; point; poison; possible; power; practice; professor; quantities; quantity; question; rare; real; reason; regard; regular; reply; rest; results; rev; rule; said; science; scientific; sedative; short; similar; single; sir; sleep; slight; small; smoke; smokers; smoking; snuff; society; speaking; speech; spirits; state; stimulants; stimulus; strength; strong; study; subject; system; taking; tea; teetotaler; temperance; things; thinkers; thinking; thomas; thought; time; tobacco; total; touch; true; unable; use; useful; value; walking; want; water; way; william; wine; words; work; workers; working; world; writers; writing; years; young
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