All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.
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If men had to do their vile work without the assistance of woman and the stimulant of strong drink they would be obliged to be more divine and less brutal.
There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
There's not a man, woman or child on the face of the earth who doesn't enjoy a tasty beverage.
Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.
In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.
It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.
It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.
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