Drunkenness Quote by Bertrand Russell

Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

— Bertrand Russell

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

— Bertrand Russell

Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.

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Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.

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