"What is a gathering without unseemly drunkenness?" — Jonathan Stroud

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• Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world… — J. G. Ballard
• If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. — Samuel Butler
• Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it. — Mark Twain
• Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin;… — Willa Cather
• All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men.… — William Penn
• Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. — Seneca the Younger
• Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an… — Roland Barthes
• The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth… — Saint Augustine
• I look up the telephone number of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, my hands shaking, I open the bar and drink the… — John Cheever
• Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning. — Michel de Montaigne
• Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used. — William Shakespeare

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