"No laws, however stringent, can make the idle……" — Samuel Smiles

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• It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. — Aristotle
• Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious… — Ludwig van Beethoven
• Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough. — Lord Chesterfield
• No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as… — Thomas Jefferson
• Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of… — Charles Baudelaire
• What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and… — Florence Nightingale
• Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors… — Jon Anderson
• He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died… — Anna Sewell
• I feel like a drunken man who doesn't have a drink. — David Pleat
• Wine ...moderately drunken it doth quicken a man's wits, It doth comfort the heart. — Unknown Author
• Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine. But do I? Am I an addict? No. Have I tried it? Probably in… — Rob Ford
• I do miss the stage. There's nothing like it, nothing. When I did my one-woman show and played the Palace… — Shirley MacLaine

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