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“Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober.
[Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: Philippicoe (II, 32)
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“Mynheer Vandunck, though he never was drunk,
Sipped brandy and water gayly.”
George Colman ("The Younger") Quotes Source: Mynheer Vandunck
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“Nothing in Nature's sober found,
But an eternal Health goes round.
Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high--
Fill all the Glasses there; for why
Should every Creature Drink but I?
Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?”
Abraham Cowley Quotes Source: Anacreon II--Drinking
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“The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain,
And drinks, and gapes for Drink again;
The Plants suck in the Earth and are
With constant Drinking fresh and fair.”
Abraham Cowley Quotes Source: Anacreon II--Drinking
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“Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle?
He was all for love and a little for the bottle.”
Charles Dibdin Quotes Source: Captain Wattle and Miss Rol
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“When I got up to the Peacock--where I found everybody drinking
hot punch in self-preservation.”
Charles Dickens Quotes Source: The Holly Tree Inn
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“"Wery good power o' suction, Sammy," said Mr. Weller the
elder. . . . "You'd ha' made an uncommon fine oyster, Sammy, if
you'd been born in that station o' life."”
Charles Dickens Quotes Source: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (ch. XXIII)
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“Inebriate of air am I,
And debauchee of dew,
Reeling, through endless summer days,
From inns of molten blue.”
Emily Dickinson Quotes Source: Poems (XX)
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“How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall
At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the
hall.”
Eugene Field Quotes Source: The Clink of the Ice
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