#drunkard

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject. ↗

— George Savile

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He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk. ↗

— Epictetus

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If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard. ↗

— John Dos Passos

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I'm a special drunkard... I drink too much. ↗

— Bon Scott

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You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover. ↗

— Henri Matisse

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A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another. ↗

— Arthur Keith

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The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process. ↗

— Bruce Perens

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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

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I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination. ↗

— David Ogilvy

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A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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