Quote by Robert Benchley
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with its just compounding the felony. – Robert Benchley

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There are several ways in which to apportion the family income, all of them unsatisfactory. – Robert Benchley

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It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldnt give it up because by that time I was too famous. – Robert Benchley

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The naturalistic literature of this country has reached such a state that no family of characters is considered true to life which does not include at least two hypochondriacs, one sadist, and one old man who spills food down the front of his vest. – Robert Benchley

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To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it – this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed. – Sir Walter Scott

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I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear ont, and tightly, too, an I live, ifaith. – Ben Johnson

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Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day;
Let other hours be set apart for business.
To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk;
And this our queen shall be as drunk as we. – Henry Fielding

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A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender. – Jim Bishop

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