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Extenuating Circumstances
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A CASE of some great offence was tried before Lord Hermand (who was a
great toper), and the counsel pleaded extenuation for his client in that
he was drunk when he committed the offence. Drunk! exclaimed Lord
Hermand, in great indignation; if he could do such a thing when he was
drunk, what might he not have done when he was sober? evidently
implying that the normal condition of human nature and its most hopeful
one, was a condition of intoxication.
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