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If without the explanation of drunkenness he makes such harangues, I cannot doubt that his unfitness for office becomes more evident, inasmuch as his deplorable condition is natural, and not abnormal.
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Sumner argues that if a person makes inappropriate speeches without the excuse of drunkenness, it highlights their unfitness for office.
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