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A cautionary figure

One classic line argues the sight of a drunkard preaches Better against the habit than any sermon ever could.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Fitness
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Quotes by William Graham Sumner

Love
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Quotes by Henri Matisse

Best
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Quotes by George Savile

Glasses
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Quotes by Epictetus

Nov 07, 2020

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.

Quotes by David Ogilvy

One Thing
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Quotes by Arthur Keith

Another treats desire itself as the real subject, comparing it to something working Against a person from the inside, much like drink does within the drunkard.

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