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Quote by Philip Freneau

“Tobacco surely was designed To poison, and destroy mankind.”

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Philip Freneau (1752-1832) was an American poet, widely known as the "Poet of the American Revolution." Born in New Jersey, he received classical education at Princeton University. Freneau composed passionate patriotic poems that inspired colonial resistance during the Revolutionary War. He also worked as a teacher, sea captain, and newspaper publisher. His works, celebrating liberty and criticizing British tyranny, became influential in shaping American national identity. more

“There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent interest in it. They do not experiment, compare, fit the tobacco to the occasion. A man should always be pleasantly conscious of the fact that he is smoking.”

People Men Should Facts Use Interest Doubt Fit Conscious Intelligent Experiments Miserable Occasions Compare No Doubt Smoking Tobacco

Author:J. B. Priestley

“I smoke a brown pipe like the breast of a little negress.”

Littles Smoke Smoking Brown Breasts Pipe

Author:Francis Jammes

“As the priest is characterized by his cassock, so the smoker by his pipe. The way in which he holds it, raises it to his lips, and knocks out the ashes, reveals his personality, habits, passions, and even his thoughts.”

Way Passion Personality Habit Raises Lips Smoking Priests Ashes Pipe Smokers

Author:E. T. A. Hoffmann

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