Quote #4

I was five years old the first time I got drunk.

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  2. Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect; and if it must come throug…
  3. I am. I was. I am not. I never am.
  4. The fortunate man is the one who cannot take more than a couple of drinks without becoming intoxicated. The unfortunate wight is the one wh…
  5. The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in …
  6. Life's not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.
  7. I did not begin when I was born, nor when I was conceived. I have been growing, developing, through incalculable myriads of millenniums. Al…
  8. A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

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