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Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

— W. H. Davies

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

There's not a man, woman or child on the face of the earth who doesn't enjoy a tasty beverage.

— David Letterman

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.

— Caroline M. Nichols Churchill

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

— Samuel Johnson

It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess.

— John Selden

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

— William Butler Yeats

I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.

— Dean Martin

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.

— John Osborne

✗Opposing Perspectives

They drink with impunity, or anybody who invites them.

— Charles Farrar Browne

When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

— John Woolman