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A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.
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Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
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A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.
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Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.
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Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.
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I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.
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I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.
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It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.
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Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.
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So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
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So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.
The Angel of Darkness (1997) -
The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
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The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.
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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
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The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.
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There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.
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There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.
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Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.
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