Jesse Torrey Quotes

• Coffee, though a useful medicine, if drunk constantly will at length induce a decay of health , and hectic fever.

  Jesse Torrey

  Coffee, Medicine, Drunk

  The Moral Instructor Pt IV, Sect. II, Ch. 10

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• We shall not refuse tobacco the credit of being sometimes medical, when used temperately, though an acknowledged poison.

  Jesse Torrey

  Smoking, Poison, Credit

  Jesse Torrey (1819). “The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue and Happiness: Being a Compendium of Moral Science, in Four Parts ... : with an Appendix Containing Directions for the Institution of Free Public Libraries, and Reading Societies : Designed for the Use of Families, and the Highest Classes in Common Schools and Academies”, p.186

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• If you wish to study men you must not neglect to mix with the society of children.

  Jesse Torrey

  Inspirational, Children, Men

  Jesse Torrey (1819). “The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue and Happiness: Being a Compendium of Moral Science, in Four Parts ... : with an Appendix Containing Directions for the Institution of Free Public Libraries, and Reading Societies : Designed for the Use of Families, and the Highest Classes in Common Schools and Academies”, p.134

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