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• Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Relief, Modern Life, Life Is

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• My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

  Robert E. Lee

  Alcohol, Civil War, Moral

  Robert E. Lee (2016). “The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)”, p.443, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it.

  Mark Twain

  Drinking, Abstinence, Pledge

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.360, Courier Corporation

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• Pouring out liquor is like burning books.

  William Faulkner

  Book, Burning, Pouring

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• In terms of addressing some of the most impacted communities and historically excluded communities - often of color, often low income - there is this adage in specifically African American communities that on every corner in low income neighborhoods you'll find a liquor store.

  Bryant Terry

  Community, African American, Term

  "MoJo Video: Bryant Terry’s Vegan Soul Kitchen". Interview With Brittney Andres, www.motherjones.com. April 10, 2009.

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• French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not only breed good blood, but it nutrifieth also, being a glutinous substantial liquor; of this wine, if of any other, may be verified that merry induction: That good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.

  James Howell

  Wine, Men, Blood

  James Howell (1726). “Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ: Familiar Letters Domestick and Foreign, Divided Into Four Books; Partly Historical, Political, Philosophical. Upon Emergent Occasions”, p.366

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• Liquor - you can make it illegal but you can't make it unpopular.

  Arthur Baer

  Drinking, Illegal

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• I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have abused liquor is something to be paid for with suffering and death perhaps but not renunciation.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Suffering And Death, Essentials, Facts

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• Why, if 'tis dancing you would be, There's brisker pipes than poetry. Say, for what were hop-yards meant, Or why was Burton built on Trent? Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse, And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man. Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink For fellows whom it hurts to think: Look into the pewter pot To see the world as the world's not.

  A. E. Housman

  Hurt, Drinking, Men

  Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 62

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• No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. In the first place brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him.

  James Boswell

  Drinking, Hero, Wine

  James Boswell (2012). “James Boswell's Life of Johnson: Manuscript Edition: |”, p.186, Edinburgh University Press

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• Ever since I was an itty bitty kitty, been drinking liquor out of Mama's titty.

  Tupac Shakur

  Drinking, Alcohol, Drug

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• What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition.

  Learned Hand

  Government, Different Faces, Political

  Learned Hand (1968). “The art and craft of judging: the decisions of Judge Learned Hand”

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• If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor, watch out when she finds the Champagne.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Wine, Aunt, Watches

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• WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Christian, Food, Wine

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.238, University of Georgia Press

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• When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining Alcoholics Anonymous, I was at last able to leave Piss-Artists Notorious.

  Clive James

  Funny, Humorous, Drinking

  Clive James (2012). “Always Unreliable: Memoirs”, p.303, Pan Macmillan

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• In her memoir, Anne Robinson recounts the wake-up call which motivated her to stop drinking. Leaving her eight-year-old daughter alone in their car while she went to buy liquor, she returned to find her daughter with tears running down her cheeks. The guilt and horror Ms. Robinson felt at this sight jolted her into sobriety.

  Anne Robinson

  Daughter, Running, Drinking

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• Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host.

  Fred Allen

  Party, Men, People

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• I dealt with men who had tempers, and who could get violent-Lord knows how I had to defend myself against Howard Hughes and Frank Sinatra, and from Artie Shaw's verbal abuse. But George [C. Scott] was a different category of animal when he got drunk. He'd break into my hotel room, which he did in Italy, London and at the Beverly Hills Hotel, attack me to where I was frightened for my life, and scream, 'Why won't you marry me?' Well, I would never marry a man who couldn't control his liquor. Me, I'm a happy drunk. I laugh, I dance. I certainly don't break bottles and threaten to kill.

  Ava Gardner

  Animal, Men, Drunk

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• I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign of force for an effective campaign of education; because it has replaced comparatively uninjurious light wines and beers with the worst kind of hard liquor and bad liquor; because it has increased drinking not only among men but has extended drinking to women and even children.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Children, War, Drinking

  William Randolph Hearst (1952). “William Randolph Hearst: a portrait in his own words”

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• The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Writing, Wine, Kissing

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• It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune.

  E. B. White

  Love, Horse, Fighting

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• The sickness of the mother runs on through the girl, leaving her small and helpless. Liquor flies through her brain with the force of a gun, leaving her running in circles.

  Lou Reed

  Family, Girl, Mother

  Song: Endless Cycle, Album: New York

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• The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces. The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces. Candy is dandy But liquor is quicker.

  Ogden Nash

  Drunk, Alcohol, Pieces

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• Well, we have to realize the truth about the person who is a hip-hop insider. Most of these people are not really insiders. They are people who are chosen to do an interview and they will make a statement and say that they are a part of the hip-hop culture, but from an intellectual standpoint, they are not very sharp, because back in '1990..'91 one would criticize somebody for doing one type of commercial and say that's not real hip-hop and then another rapper turns around and sell them malt liquor and say that's real hip hop.

  MC Hammer

  Real, Rapper, People

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• I can't afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.

  B. B. King

  Wine, Beer, Politics

  Song: Recession Blues

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