Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man but I call him an unsocial man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.
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The jest which is expected is already destroyed.Samuel Johnson
Do not hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.
Samuel Johnson
A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
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Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so, they are gone to milk the bull.
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Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
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Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings
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