spirit-shops

Updated: June 8, 2025

By public-houses and spirit-shops they are surrounded with innumerable temptations; while to many of them savings banks are hardly known by name. Dissipation has her nets drawn across every street. In many of our towns, sobriety has to run the gauntlet of half-a-dozen spirit-shops in the space of a bow-shot. These are near at hand open by day, and blazing by night, both on Sabbath and Saturday.

Samuel Smiles - Thrift