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Rome in 1860

CHAPTER XII
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Smoke is meat and drink to a Roman, his first care in the morning, his occupation by day, and his last thought at night.

Yet you may truly say, that during the time of its prohibition the whole city willingly gave up smoking.

If, in order to testify political dissatisfaction, the whole of London were to leave off beer-drinking by private agreement, the expression of feeling would be hardly a more remarkable one..


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