Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication
 Lord Byron, Don Juan (1819). copy citation

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Author Lord Byron
Source Don Juan
Topic life good
Date 1819
Language English
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“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;” source