#drunkard

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard. ↗

— Ernest Shackleton

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Everyone knows that God protects drunkards and lovers. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

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I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real. ↗

— Marguerite Young

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Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child. ↗

— Plato

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A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another. ↗

— Arthur Keith

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Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit. ↗

— Thomas Willis

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The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject. ↗

— George Savile

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I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination. ↗

— David Ogilvy

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A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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