"Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable."
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"A man dies too young if he leaves any wine in his cellar."
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"Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink."
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"I never turned to drink. It seemed to turn to me."
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"You should know our mania for building is stronger than ever. It is a diabolical thing. It consumes money and the more you build, the more you want to build. It's a sickness like being addicted to alcohol."
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"Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough."
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"When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew it was something else, possibly a woman; and when he had it all -- cash, booze, and a wife -- he couldn't be distracted from the great emptiness that was always falling through him and never hit the ground."
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"Drunkenness is temporary suicide."
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"No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage"
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"Hefeweizen. Never drink something you can't spill."
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"He's so full of alcohol, if you put a lighted wick in his mouth he'd burn for three days."
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"Please pass me the peace weed, and take some heed. Throw away all that mixed up speed."
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"I was poisoning myself with alcohol and medicating myself. I was trying to numb things. I was trying not to feel things, and that's ridiculous. It's one of the dumbest things you can do, because all you're doing is postponing the inevitable. Someday you'll have to look all those things in the eye rather than try to numb the pain."
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"Come on boys, you must listen unto me, lay off the whiskey and let that cocaine be."
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"I got a bad migraine that lasted 3 years, and the pills I took made by fingers disappear."
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"Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew."
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"All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects."
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"It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken."
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"Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror."
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"If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!"
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