“The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.”

Investigations have failed to confirm this in Emerson&#x27;s writings (John H. Lienhard. &quot;A better moustrap&quot; http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1163.htm, Engines of our Ingenuity). Also reported as a misattribution in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, &amp; Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 25. Note that Emerson did say, as noted above, &quot;I trust a good deal to common fame, as we all must. If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods&quot;. <br class="br">Misattributed

The Doctrine of Repentance (1668)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 476.

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 373.

Source: Jayber Crow

"Where Art Thou?", p. 40
Startling Questions (1853)

Address to the Springfield Washingtonian Temperance Society (22 February 1842), quoted at greater length in John Carroll Power (1889) Abraham Lincoln: His Life, Public Services, Death and Funeral Cortege
1840s

Source: Life Thoughts (1858), p. 37

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