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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

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Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible. – Samuel Butler

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Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. – Samuel Butler

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Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker. – Proverb

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If all be true that I do think, there are five reasons we should drink: Good wine — a friend — or being dry — or lest we should be by and by — or any other reason why. – Henry Aldrich

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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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