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The Great Spirit, who made all things, made every thing for some use, and whatever use he designed anything for, that use it should always be put to. Now, when he made rum, he said Let this be for the Indians to get drunk with, and it must be so. (Bristow Eric)
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. (Bristow Eric)
Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit! (Bristow Eric)
Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company. (Bristow Eric)
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This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler. (Bristow Eric)
What whiskey will not cure, there is no cure for. (Bristow Eric)
Old wine and friends improve with age. (Bristow Eric)
Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker. (Bristow Eric)
When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink. (Bristow Eric)
I do not live in the world of sobriety. (Bristow Eric)
Drunkenness is temporary suicide. (Bristow Eric)
They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst. (Bristow Eric)
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness. (Bristow Eric)
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. (Bristow Eric)
I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet. (Bristow Eric)
Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. (Bristow Eric)
O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! That we should with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause transform ourselves into beasts! (Bristow Eric)
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil. (Bristow Eric)
It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off. (Bristow Eric)
Wine is bottled poetry. (Bristow Eric)
No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king! (Bristow Eric)
Better belly burst than good liquor be lost. (Bristow Eric)
There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink. (Bristow Eric)
The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies. (Bristow Eric)
Water is the only drink for a wise man. (Bristow Eric)
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