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Quote by Samuel Butler
It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the dr

It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk. – Samuel Butler

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it. – Samuel Butler

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Excess
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When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented. – Samuel Butler

Category:
Water
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine. – Samuel Butler

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Letters (writing)
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The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk. – Alben W. Barkley

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Wine is a mocker, and strong drink is raging; and who is deceived by it is not wise. – Bible

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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda water the day after. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didnt know how to play them when I was drunk. – Sir Richard Francis Burton

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