Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning. -George Bernard Shaw

 

Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.


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Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

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Hell is to drift; heaven is to steer.

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We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

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If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

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