Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication . . . . Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths . . . . But in liberty moderation is wholesome, and so it is in wine . . . . We ought not indulge too often, for fear the mind contract … Continue reading Expressions: Nov 2025 IV
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A dog will run up and lick your hand. No bottle will do that . . . If the whiskey ever starts licking your hand, I would advise you lay off it for a while, say five or ten minutes. ~ W. C. Fields
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Our government land costs one dollar and twenty-five cents an acre, and good whiskey two dollars a bottle. How many men die landless who during their lives have swallowed whole townships — trees and all? ~ Author unknown, c.1878
