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“A drunkard or a gambler may be weaned from his ways, but not a politician.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
“It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.” Charles Bukowski, Factotum
“Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become obvious yourself.” Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
“He who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking.” Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
“Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.” G. K. Chesterton, Heretics
“Appetite comes with eating, says Angeston, but the thirst goes away with drinking.” François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
“There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“His face was stern, and much flushed. If he were really not in the habit of drinking rather more than was exactly good for him, he might have brought action against his countenance for libel, and have recovered heavy damages.” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
“so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“Fifteen men on the dead man's chest— Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest— Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!” Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
“I drink no more than a sponge.” François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
“Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.” William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor
“People do not know each other until they have drunk together. He who empties his glass empties his heart.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“He had pondered for twenty years the problem whether he loved liquor because it made him talk or whether he loved conversation because it made him thirsty.” W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
“If ya want a linguistic adventure, go drinkin' with a Scotsman. 'Cause ya couldn't fucking understand them before...” Robin Williams, Robin Williams Live On Broadway
“Sybarites bathe in wine, and Nonconformists drink water; but we are not concerned with these frantic exceptions.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“Drink! The flies have not spoilt my vintage; the vines were dry before they came.” Anatole France, Penguin Island
“Keep running after a dog, and he will never bite you; drink always before the thirst, and it will never come upon you.” François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
“The drink made past happy things contemporary with the present, as if they were still going on, contemporary even with the future as if they were about to happen again.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
“But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down, which in every metropolis is most in evidence through the...” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance” William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!” Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
“Eat less, and leap more, I say; it is meat, drink, and cloth to us.” François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

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