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“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” - 1883

“I drink no more than a sponge.” François Rabelais, “Gargantua and Pantagruel” - 1534

“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” - 1580

“it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance” William Shakespeare, “Macbeth” - 1623

“Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!” Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven” - 1845

“Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.” William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wives of Windsor” - 1602

“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” - 1838

“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” - 1910

“There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.” Aldous Huxley, “Brave New World” - 1932

“Drink! The flies have not spoilt my vintage; the vines were dry before they came.” Anatole France, “Penguin Island” - 1908

“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” - 1982

“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” - 2002

“The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.” Anthony Trollope, “Phineas Redux” - 1874

“A drunkard or a gambler may be weaned from his ways, but not a politician.” Anthony Trollope, “Phineas Redux” - 1874

“Eat less, and leap more, I say; it is meat, drink, and cloth to us.” François Rabelais, “Gargantua and Pantagruel” - 1534

“Appetite comes with eating, says Angeston, but the thirst goes away with drinking.” François Rabelais, “Gargantua and Pantagruel” - 1534

“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” - 1534

“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” - 1925

“Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.” G. K. Chesterton, “Heretics” - 1905

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