Of all calamities this is the greatest.
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All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.
The smaller the drink the clearer the head.
O God that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should with joy pleas-ance revel and applause transform ourselves into beasts!
Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.