A few Drinking / Boozing related Quotes
There's nought, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. - Lord Byron, Don Juan, Second Canto
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What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking! - Lord Byron, The Deformed Transformed
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Oh brother, be a brother, fill this tiny cup of mine. And please, sir, make it whiskey: I have no head for wine! - Nick Cave, lyric, "Brother My Cup is Empty"
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I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion. - Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote[specific citation needed]
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A man who doesn't drink is not, in my opinion, fully a man. - Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), Russian author.
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It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety. - Thomas de Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1856).
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