“ Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication ”
Lord Byron, Don Juan (1819). copy citation
Author | Lord Byron |
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Source | Don Juan |
Topic | life good |
Date | 1819 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21700/21700-h/21700-h.htm |
Context
“the heart's rain! Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please,—the more because they preach in vain,— Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication: Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation; Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion: But to return,—Get very drunk;”
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