A drunken man is fitly named: he has drank, till he is drunken: th

A drunken man is fitly named: he has drank, till he is drunken: the wine swallows his consciousness, and it sinks therein. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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